Based on 14-year panel data on ex-prisoners, this paper reports the impact of incarceration on future job prospects. Black men, in addition to facing greater risk of ending up in prison, are more negatively affected by imprisonment than white men. The expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system is therefore responsible for compounding the disadvantages of African Americans
With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners released e...
African-American males comprise a disproportionate percentage of the individuals imprisoned in State...
Examines racial and ethnic disparities by state, and finds substantial variation in the degree of bl...
For Geno, my mentor and friend. This paper assesses the increasing importance of incarceration in de...
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men’s prison admission rates in the United...
For decades, incarceration has been America's solution to crime. From 1973 to 2009 America's prison ...
This paper seeks to further understand the causes of high crime rates among young black men. I have ...
America’s mass incarceration system functions as a tool to keep their black communities impoverished...
Abstract The relative importance of racial and class inequality in incarceration in t...
This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospec...
From 1980 to 2000, incarceration levels and enforcement of child support policies -- both of which d...
This paper attempts to analyze and isolate the effects of income inequality on the difference betwee...
African Americans are more likely to be victimized by crime and also to be under criminal justice su...
Understanding long-run patterns in the incarceration of Black Americans requires integrating the stu...
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the Unite...
With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners released e...
African-American males comprise a disproportionate percentage of the individuals imprisoned in State...
Examines racial and ethnic disparities by state, and finds substantial variation in the degree of bl...
For Geno, my mentor and friend. This paper assesses the increasing importance of incarceration in de...
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men’s prison admission rates in the United...
For decades, incarceration has been America's solution to crime. From 1973 to 2009 America's prison ...
This paper seeks to further understand the causes of high crime rates among young black men. I have ...
America’s mass incarceration system functions as a tool to keep their black communities impoverished...
Abstract The relative importance of racial and class inequality in incarceration in t...
This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospec...
From 1980 to 2000, incarceration levels and enforcement of child support policies -- both of which d...
This paper attempts to analyze and isolate the effects of income inequality on the difference betwee...
African Americans are more likely to be victimized by crime and also to be under criminal justice su...
Understanding long-run patterns in the incarceration of Black Americans requires integrating the stu...
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the Unite...
With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners released e...
African-American males comprise a disproportionate percentage of the individuals imprisoned in State...
Examines racial and ethnic disparities by state, and finds substantial variation in the degree of bl...