Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lee, Logan M.
• 署名单位: Grinnell College
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20200150
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 117-149
• 关键词: work-release; prisoner reentry; recidivism; EMPLOYMENT; program; crime; incarceration; supervision; offenders; outcomes

摘要

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison. For many, the transition back to society includes a manda-tory stay in residential housing. I estimate the effect of residential housing on reincarceration using administrative data from Iowa. I address selection into residential housing by instrumenting for res-idential housing assignment with the recommendation rate of ran-domly assigned case managers. I find no evidence that Iowa's costly investment in residential housing results in reduced reincarceration relative to parole. Instead, residential housing increases reincarcer-ation due to violent crimes and technical violations, while decreas-ing drug and public order crimes.