's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … further criminal behavior. For previously employed individuals, while there is no effect on recidivism, there is a lasting … panel dataset containing the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of the entire population, and exploit the random …

reintegrate into society. The inability to find stable work is often cited as a key determinant of failed re-entry (or “recidivism …”). However, empirical evidence that demonstrates a causal impact of job opportunities on recidivism is sparse. In fact, several … randomized evaluations of employment-focused programs find increases in employment but little impact on recidivism. Recent …

characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and …

research, we document an important source of heterogeneity in the impact of incarceration on recidivism. Incarceration creates … lasting reductions in recidivism among first offenders but not repeat offenders. We present suggestive evidence that these … reductions among first offenders primarily reflect outcomes for offenders who live in lower-crime areas of the city and are not …