This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

Abstract Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits
of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, yet there is little empirical evidence to …

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 …

We propose a nonparametric test for the exclusion and monotonicity assumptions invoked in
instrumental variable (IV) designs based on the random assignment of cases to judges. We …

This article provides a critical overview in five stages of roughly 50 years of research on the
intergenerational transmission of criminal justice contact. In the first stage, I document that …

We study the causal effect of incarceration on reoffending using discontinuities in North
Carolina's sentencing guidelines. A regression discontinuity analysis shows that 1 year of …

This paper demonstrates the long-term intra-and intergenerational benefits of the
HighScope Perry Preschool Project, which targeted disadvantaged African American …

A large social science research literature examines the effects of prisons on crime and
socioeconomic inequality, but the penal institution itself is often a black box overlooked in …

This paper presents new evidence showing that parental incarceration increases children's
education. I collect criminal records for 90,000 low-income parents who have been …

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or coresident
adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's …