's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … rates of recidivism among ex-convicts is due to selection, and not a consequence of the experience of being in prison …

randomized evaluations of employment-focused programs find increases in employment but little impact on recidivism. Recent …The majority of individuals released from prison face limited employment opportunities and do not successfully … reintegrate into society. The inability to find stable work is often cited as a key determinant of failed re-entry (or “recidivism …