Affiliation:
1. University of Chicago (email: )
2. Instiglio (email: )
3. University of Exeter and Global Priorities Institute (email: )
4. University of North Carolina (email: )
Abstract
Several small, short-term, or nonexperimental studies show that cognitive behavioral–informed interventions reduce antisocial behaviors over one to two years, but persistence research is rare. We followed 999 high-risk men in Liberia ten years after randomization into eight weeks of low-cost, nonspecialist-led therapy; $200 cash; both; or neither. A decade later, antisocial behaviors (such as robbery and drug selling) fell 0.2 standard deviations from therapy alone—significantly greater than the one-year impacts. Meanwhile, men who received therapy plus cash were 0.25 standard deviations less antisocial—similar to one-year results. In both cases, impacts were concentrated in men exhibiting highest baseline risk. (JEL D91, K42, O15, O17)
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Geography, Planning and Development
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