Dobbie, Will; Grönqvist, Hans; Niknami, Susan; Palme, … - 2019
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children's short- and long-run out-comes using … administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random … assignment of criminal defendants to judges with different incarceration tendencies. We find that the incarceration of a parent …