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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence
Anwar, Shamena - 2012
maximum sentences and separately by race. If the coefficient estimates on the exposure time term differ by race, then there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103520
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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence
Anwar, Shamena - 2012
maximum sentences and separately by race. If the coefficient estimates on the exposure time term differ by race, then there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460421
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Testing for racial prejudice in the Parole Board release process : theory and evidence
Anwar, Shamena; Fang, Hanming - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009576493
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The effect of sentencing reform on racial and ethnic disparities in involvement with the criminal justice system : the case of California's proposition 47
Lofstrom, Magnus; Martin, Brandon; Raphael, Steven - 2019
Community Survey to analyze change in the proportion incarcerated on any given day and how these changes vary by race and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130020
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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169318
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Not So Black and White : Uncovering Racial Bias from Systematically Misreported Trooper Reports
Luh, Elizabeth - 2022
Biased highway troopers may intentionally misreport the race of the stopped motorists in order to evade detection. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107303
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Female Offenders' Use of Social Welfare Programs Before and after Jail and Prison : Does Prison Cause Welfare Dependency?
Butcher, Kristin F. - 2006
welfare receipt for 45,000 female offenders from Cook County, Illinois over a ten year period. We find that this group does in … advantaged among the population of offenders. Further, bans on TANF receipt for drug felons enacted as part of welfare reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012732504
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Snapping Back : Food Stamp Bans and Criminal Recidivism
Tuttle, Cody - 2018
I estimate the effect of access to Food Stamps on criminal recidivism. In 1996, a federal welfare reform imposed a lifetime ban from Food Stamps on convicted drug felons. Florida modified this ban, restricting it to drug traffickers who commit their offense on or after August 23, 1996. I exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935484
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Prison work and convict rehabilitation
Zanella, Giulio - 2020
I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data from Italy and combining quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods to achieve both a credible identification and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244986
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In-Kind Welfare Benefits and Reincarceration Risk : Evidence from Medicaid
Burns, Marguerite; Dague, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Most of the 600,000 adults returning to the community from state and federal prisons annually in the U.S. carry substantial debt, have low income and low education, and limited formal employment prior to entering prison. Upon reentry, they face financial hardship, high rates of morbidity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322781