punitiveness of criminal sanctions at 18 to estimate the deterrence effect of incarceration. Our analysis suggests a 2 percent … young offenders. …

-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on …

punitiveness of criminal sanctions at 18 to estimate the deterrence effect of incarceration. Our analysis suggests a 2 percent … young offenders. …

Incarceration, now a rite of passage for many economically disadvantaged minority men involving an immediate and … and isolated from families. Despite a burgeoning literature documenting the collateral consequences of incarceration for … family life, as well as evidence that the deleterious effects of incarceration for maternal and child wellbeing stem from …

exclusively non-violent offenders, who now make up over 60 percent of the prison and jail population. A review of the extensive … research on incarceration and crime suggests that these savings could be achieved without any appreciable deterioration in … calculate that a reduction in incarceration rates just to the level we had in 1993 (which was already high by historical …

Olivier Marie explains the value of an economic approach to the analysis, design and evaluation of crime …

Olivier Marie explains the value of an economic approach to the analysis, design and evaluation of crime …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …