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Effect of Abandoned Housing Interventions on Gun Violence, Perceptions of Safety, and Substance Use in Black Neighborhoods: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial by South, Eugenia C, MacDonald, John M, Tam, Vicky W, Ridgeway, Greg, Branas, Charles C

“…Structural racism has resulted in long-standing disinvestment and dilapidated environmental conditions in Black neighborhoods. Abandoned houses signal neglect…”
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A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health, Safety, and Greening Vacant Urban Space by Branas, Charles C., Cheney, Rose A., MacDonald, John M., Tam, Vicky W., Jackson, Tara D., Ten Have, Thomas R.

“…Greening of vacant urban land may affect health and safety. The authors conducted a decade-long difference-in-differences analysis of the impact of a vacant…”
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The association between urban trees and crime: Evidence from the spread of the emerald ash borer in Cincinnati by Kondo, Michelle C., Han, SeungHoon, Donovan, Geoffrey H., MacDonald, John M.

“…•The emerald ash borer (EAB) began killing ash trees in Cincinnati in 2007.•We used a natural experiment approach to assess impact of tree loss on crime.•We…”
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The Effect of Light Rail Transit on Body Mass Index and Physical Activity by MacDonald, John M., PhD, Stokes, Robert J., PhD, Cohen, Deborah A., MD, MPH, Kofner, Aaron, MS, Ridgeway, Greg K., PhD

“…Background The built environment can constrain or facilitate physical activity. Most studies of the health consequences of the built environment face problems…”
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The effects of closing urban schools on students’ academic and behavioral outcomes: Evidence from Philadelphia by Steinberg, Matthew P., MacDonald, John M.

“…Urban districts throughout the country are increasingly closing schools in response to declining enrollment and academic underperformance. We estimate the…”
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A Difference-In-Differences Study of the Effects of a New Abandoned Building Remediation Strategy on Safety by Kondo, Michelle C, Keene, Danya, Hohl, Bernadette C, MacDonald, John M, Branas, Charles C

“…Vacant and abandoned buildings pose significant challenges to the health and safety of communities. In 2011 the City of Philadelphia began enforcing a Doors…”
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Doubly Robust Internal Benchmarking and False Discovery Rates for Detecting Racial Bias in Police Stops by Ridgeway, Greg, MacDonald, John M.

“…Allegations of racially biased policing are a contentious issue in many communities. Processes that flag potential problem officers have become a key component…”
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Metasomatism and the crystallization of zircon megacrysts in Archaean peridotites from the Lewisian complex, NW Scotland by Faithfull, John W., Dempster, Tim J., MacDonald, John M., Reilly, Monica

“…Zircon megacrysts are locally abundant in 1–40 cm-thick orthopyroxenite veins within peridotite host rocks in the Archaean Lewisian gneiss complex from NW…”
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The mechanisms and drivers of lithification in slag‐dominated artificial ground by MacDonald, John M., Brolly, Connor V., Slaymark, Charlotte, Spruženiece, Liene, Wilson, Claire, Hilderman, Robin

“…Abstract Unconsolidated artificial ground is an ever‐increasing feature on the Earth's surface but it poses various challenges such as pollutant release and…”
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REDUCING CRIME BY SHAPING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT WITH ZONING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LOS ANGELES by Anderson, James M., MacDonald, John M., Bluthenthal, Ricky, Ashwood, J. Scott

“…The idea of using law to change the built environment in ways that reduce opportunities to commit crimes has a long history. Unfortunately, this idea has…”
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Advancing health equity through integrated biology and population health research: A community-based sample cortisol feasibility and exploratory study by Ortiz, Robin, Joseph, Joshua J., Branas, Charlie C., MacDonald, John M., Nguemeni Tiako, Max Jordan, Oyekanmi, Kehinde, South, Eugenia C.

“…Community-based research inclusive of self-assessment and objective environmental metrics can be enhanced by the collection of biomarker data in unity toward…”
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Effect of Remediating Blighted Vacant Land on Shootings: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial by Moyer, Ruth, MacDonald, John M, Ridgeway, Greg, Branas, Charles C

“…To determine if remediating blighted vacant urban land reduced firearm shooting incidents resulting in injury or death. We conducted a cluster randomized…”
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Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear by Branas, Charles C., South, Eugenia, Kondo, Michelle C., Hohl, Bernadette C., Bourgois, Philippe, Wiebe, Douglas J., MacDonald, John M.

“…Vacant and blighted urban land is a widespread and potentially risky environmental condition encountered by millions of people on a daily basis. About 15% of…”
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Does urban development influence crime? Evidence from Philadelphia’s new zoning regulations by Mitre-Becerril, David, MacDonald, John M.

“…This paper estimates the effect of enacting a new zoning code in Philadelphia on urban development and crime. The new zoning code was intended to ease…”
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Assessing the Validity of Negative High Field Strength-Element Anomalies as a Proxy for Archaean Subduction: Evidence from the Ben Strome Complex, NW Scotland by Guice, George, McDonald, Iain, Hughes, Hannah, Schlatter, Denis, Goodenough, Kathryn, MacDonald, John, Faithfull, John

“…The relative depletion of high field strength elements (HFSE), such as Nb, Ta and Ti, on normalised trace-element plots is a geochemical proxy routinely used…”
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Correction: A Difference-In-Differences Study of the Effects of a New Abandoned Building Remediation Strategy on Safety by Kondo, Michelle C, Keene, Danya, Hohl, Bernadette C, MacDonald, John M, Branas, Charles C

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Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Violence by Kondo, Michelle C, Andreyeva, Elena, South, Eugenia C, MacDonald, John M, Branas, Charles C

“…Violence is a widespread problem that affects the physical, mental, and social health of individuals and communities. Violence comes with an immense economic…”
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Children drinking private well water have higher blood lead than those with city water by Gibson, Jacqueline MacDonald, Fisher, Michael, Clonch, Allison, MacDonald, John M., Cook, Philip J.

“…Although the Flint, Michigan, water crisis renewed concerns about lead (Pb) in city drinking water, little attention has been paid to Pb in private wells,…”
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The effect of private police on crime: evidence from a geographic regression discontinuity design by MacDonald, John M., Klick, Jonathan, Grunwald, Ben

“…Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. We study this question by using a natural experiment in which a private university increased the number of…”
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Body‐worn cameras, lawful police stops, and NYPD officer compliance: A cluster randomized controlled trial by Braga, Anthony A., MacDonald, John M., McCabe, James

“…The federal court settlement of Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al. (2013) mandated that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) implement a series of…”
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