Garin, Andrew; Koustas, Dmitri; McPherson, Carl; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in North Carolina and Ohio …. Across both states, incarceration generates short-term drops in economic activity while individuals remain in prison. As a … incarceration history. These results suggest that upstream factors, such as other types of criminal justice interactions or pre …