Does prison cause mental health problems among inmates and their family members? Correlational studies tend to find …-experimental designs to measure the impacts of incarceration on mental health-related visits by defendants and their family members. Our … of mental health-related visits among defendants. Family members, especially spouses, also experience positive mental …

Does prison cause mental health problems among inmates and their family members? Correlational evidence reveals that … measure the impacts of incarceration on the health of defendants and their family members. We first use an event study design … and is unlikely driven by a shift in health-care demand holding health status constant. Family members, especially spouses …

We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification … set of offenders, altering their perceptions of the probability of being convicted and consequently affecting their …