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The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Every year, millions of Americans experience the incarceration of a family member. Using 30 years of administrative data from Ohio and exploiting differing incarceration propensities of randomly assigned judges, this paper provides the first quasi-experimental estimates of the effects of parental and sibling incarceration in the United States. Parental incarceration has beneficial effects on some important outcomes for children, reducing their likelihood of incarceration by 4.9 percentage points and improving their adult neighborhood quality. While estimates on academic performance and teen parenthood are imprecise, we reject large positive or negative effects. Sibling incarceration leads to similar reductions in criminal activity. (JEL H76, J13, K42)

Source: American Economic Review

DOI: 10.1257/aer.20190415

Authors: Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, Jeffrey Weaver

Institutions: University of Chicago, Brown University, University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3198362131

FWCI: 18.69

Cites: 56

Cited by: 111

Related to: 10