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Job Sorting and the Labor Market Effects of a Criminal Record

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew J.; Lepage, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the effects of a criminal record on labor market outcomes and the mediating role of job sorting using … Swedish register data. Prime-age adults with criminal records earn about 30% less than observably similar adults without … records and are concentrated in specific employers and occupations. To estimate the causal effect of a criminal record, we use …

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Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State

Blattman, Christopher - 2015

States and aid agencies use employment programs to rehabilitate high-risk men in the belief that peaceful work opportunities will deter them from crime and violence. Rigorous evidence is rare. We experimentally evaluate a program of agricultural training, capital inputs, and counseling for...

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Prison Crowding, Recidivism, and Early Release in Early Rhode Island

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2015

Prison overcrowding is a perennial problem and several states are under court order to reduce crowding. The long-term solution to crowding has been more prisons. The short-term solution is early release. Early release programs can be effective when they balance the savings of reduced prison...

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The Prison Boom and the Lack of Black Progress after Smith and Welch

Neal, Derek - 2014

More than two decades ago, Smith and Welch (1989) used the 1940 through 1980 census files to document important relative black progress. However, recent data indicate that this progress did not continue, at least among men. The growth of incarceration rates among black men in recent decades...

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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration

Baker, Olesya - 2013

We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...

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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence

Anwar, Shamena - 2012

We develop a model of a Parole Board contemplating whether to grant parole release to a prisoner who has finished serving their minimum sentence. The model implies a simple outcome test for racial prejudice robust to the inframarginality problem. Our test involves running simple regressions of...

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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

We propose a test of bias based upon patterns of judicial errors. We model the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of type I and II errors. We define racial bias a situation where the weight depends on defendant/victim race. If the court is unbiased, the error rate should be independent of...

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Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime : An Application of the "Market for Offenses Model"

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010

The interaction between offenders and potential victims has so far received relatively little attention in the literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to...

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Short Criminals : Stature and Crime in Early America

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates incarcerated in Pennsylvania state penitentiaries between 1826 and 1876, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our...

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Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates : Challenges and Policy

Raphael, Steven - 2010

-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 …

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