High rates of incarceration among American men, coupled with high rates of fatherhood among men in prison, have … motivated recent research on the effects of parental imprisonment on children’s development. We contribute to this literature … using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the effects of paternal incarceration on …

High rates of incarceration among American men, coupled with high rates of fatherhood among men in prison, have … motivated recent research on the effects of parental imprisonment on children’s development. We contribute to this literature … using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the effects of paternal incarceration on …

families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by … caregiver incarceration, as 11.4% of Black children experience parental incarceration, compared to 1.8% of their white peers …

early 1980s, the causes of these changes remain poorly understood. This article implicates mass imprisonment in at least the … second of these shifts by considering the effects of parental incarceration on child homelessness using data from the Fragile … children most at risk of homelessness, establish appropriate time-order between parental incarceration and child homelessness …

This paper examines how the increase in the incarceration of Black men and the sex ratio imbalance it induces shape … young Black women's behaviors. Combining data from the BJS and the CPS to match incarceration rates with individual … observations, I show that Black-male incarceration lowers the odds of non-marital teenage fertility while increasing young Black …

High rates of incarceration, coupled with high rates of fatherhood among men in prison, has motivated a far …-reaching literature that examines the effects of paternal incarceration on family stability and child development. Although a growing body … at the time of their criminal justice contact, raising the question of whether incarceration incapacitates fathers from …

the causes of these changes remain poorly understood. This article implicates mass imprisonment in these shifts by … considering the effects of recent paternal and maternal incarceration on child homelessness using data from the Fragile Families … of homelessness, establish appropriate time-order between recent parental incarceration and child homelessness, and …