We estimate the effect of losing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits at age 18 on
criminal justice and employment outcomes over the next two decades. To estimate this …

We estimate the impact of financial sanctions in the US criminal justice system, leveraging
nine natural experiments in a regression discontinuity design framework across a diverse …

Abstract Millions in the United States face financial sanctions in the criminal court system
each year, totaling over $27 billion in overall criminal debt. In this study, we leverage five …

Researchers working with administrative crime data often must classify offense narratives
into a common scheme for analysis purposes. No comprehensive standard currently exists …

More than 60 percent of US adults report that they had adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs). For this study of 930,000 children born during the period 1999–2003, we used …

McCartan et al.(2023) call for" making differential privacy work for census data users." This
commentary explains why the 2020 Census Noisy Measurement Files (NMFs) are not the …

Objectives: The changing nature and timing of adult role acquisition during the transition to
adulthood over the past several decades may hold implications for criminal offending as …

Scholars have reached different conclusions about the relationship between carceral
contact and community engagement and civic participation. We offer a theoretical account …

We estimate the causal impact of financial sanctions in the US criminal justice system. We
utilize a regression discontinuity design and exploit two distinct natural experiments: the …

This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment
trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal …