Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital, and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges*

Volume: 130, Issue: 2, Pages: 759 - 803
Published: May 1, 2015
Abstract
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...
Paper Details
Title
Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital, and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges*
Published Date
May 1, 2015
Volume
130
Issue
2
Pages
759 - 803
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