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challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …
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Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration, under certain circumstances, can improve inmates' social reintegration upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social...
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challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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We study the entry into legitimate employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-08. The employment rate of the prisoners falls short of 20% one year before incarceration, and they earn 25% below the national average. We identify the effect of...
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We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration rates experienced by California residents from different racial and ethnic groups. In November 2014 California voters passed state proposition 47 that redefined a series of felony...
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We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the voters in November 2014, the proposition redefined many less serious property and drug offenses that in the past could be charged as either a felony or misdemeanor to straight...
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