作者：Aizer, Anna; Doyle, Joseph J., Jr.
作者单位：Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Over 130,000 juveniles are detained in the United States each year with 70,000 in detention on any given day, yet little is known about whether such a penalty deters future crime or interrupts social and human capital formation in a way that increases the likelihood of later criminal behavior. This article uses the incarceration tendency of randomly assigned judges as an instrumental variable to estimate causal effects of juvenile incarceration on high school completion and adult recidivism. E...
