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Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions in the probability his criminal network members and younger brothers will be...
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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
. Using longitudinal data for Norway, we find that imprisonment has no effect on fathers' recidivism but reduces their …
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Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2016
challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982937
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Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders
Finlay, Keith - 2010
the labor market outcomes of ex-offenders and non-offenders. Employers express a strong aversion to hiring ex-offenders … adversely affect the labor market outcomes of ex-offenders. A model of statistical discrimination also predicts that non-offenders … the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I find evidence that labor market outcomes are worse for ex-offenders once …
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Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System
Lochner, Lance - 2009
This paper empirically examines perceptions of the criminal justice system held by young males using longitudinal survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National Youth Survey. While beliefs about the probability of an arrest are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767770
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Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates : Challenges and Policy
Raphael, Steven P. - 2010
This paper analyzes the employment prospects of former prison inmates and reviews recent evaluations of reentry programs that either aim to improve employment among the formerly incarcerated or aim to reduce recidivism through treatment interventions centered on employment. I present an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145231
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Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
Di Tella, Rafael - 2010
rationed to only some offenders; and some institutional features (such as bad prison conditions) convert ideological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149656
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The Prison Boom and the Lack of Black Progress after Smith and Welch
Neal, Derek A.; Rick, Armin - 2021
only a few years after the Civil Rights Act of 1965. A move toward more punitive treatment of arrested offenders drove … prison growth in recent decades, and this trend is evident among arrested offenders in every major crime category. Changes in …
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Recent Immigrants : Unexpected Implications for Crime and Incarceration
Butcher, Kristin F.; Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2021
Among 18-40 year old men in the United States, immigrants are less likely to be institutionalized than the native-born, and much less likely to be institutionalized than native-born men with similar demographic characteristics. Furthermore, earlier immigrants are more likely to be...
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Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
Melnikov, Nikita; Schmidt-Padilla, Carlos; Sviatschi, … - 2022
We study how territorial control by criminal organizations affects economic development. We exploit a natural experiment in El Salvador, where the emergence of these criminal organizations was the consequence of an exogenous shift in American immigration policy that led to the deportation of...
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