State and local policies increasingly restrict employers' access to criminal records, but without addressing the … underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks. Employers may thus still want to ask about a job … applicant's criminal record later in the hiring process or make inaccurate judgments based on an applicant's demographic …

Existing empirical evidence suggests a pervasive pattern of electoral cycles in criminal sentencing in the U.S.: judges …

policies that reduce competition between criminal organizations …

-professional jobs, the degree to which employers check criminal history records, and the incidence of legal prohibitions against hiring … convicted felons. I conduct multivariate analyses of the impact of checking criminal backgrounds on the likelihood of hiring …