Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Torres, Juan David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We combine full-count Census data (1850-1940) with Census/ACS samples (1950-2020) to provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1850-2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants had higher incarceration rates than US-born white men before...