The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Norris, Samuel; Pecenco, Matthew; Weaver, Jeffrey
• 署名单位: University of Chicago; Brown University; University of Southern California
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20190415
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 2926-2963
• 关键词: MATERNAL IMPRISONMENT; EMPLOYMENT EVIDENCE; CHILDREN; prison; crime; IMPACT

摘要

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.