Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon Dahl, Katrine Løken and Magne Mogstad

No 11278, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of judges who differ in their propensity to send defendants to prison. Using longitudinal data for Norway, we find that imprisonment has no effect on fathers' recidivism but reduces their employment by 20 percentage points. We find no evidence that paternal incarceration affects a child's criminal activity or school performance.

Keywords: crime; employment; incarceration; recidivism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J62 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2018-01
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Published - published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 234-240.

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