I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data … and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing channels, I find that work in unskilled prison jobs impacts convicts on … the reincarceration rate, within three years of release, of convicts on terms longer than six months – because prison work …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal … identity, while treating the others as the control group. The results demonstrate that prisoners become more dishonest when we …

uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th …

1800s. Here, we use new data from the state prison in Ohio to track heights of black and white men from 1829 to 1913. We …

between incarceration and employment rates for former female state prisoners from Illinois. Our analysis indicates that … although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters leading up to women's incarcerations, it does … not appear to harm their employment prospects later on. In the short-term, we estimate that women's post-prison employment …

data from male rural-urban migrants - prison inmates and comparable non-inmates - to examine whether parental absence in …