The Impact of Criminal Financial Sanctions : A Multi-State Analysis of Survey and Administrative Data
Keith Finlay, Matthew Gross, Carl Lieberman, Elizabeth Luh, Michael G. Mueller-Smith
We estimate the impact of financial sanctions in the U.S. criminal justice system using nine distinct natural experiments across five states. These regression discontinuity designs capture a range of enforcement levels ($17-$6,000) and institutional environments, providing robust causal evidence and external validity. We leverage survey and administrative data to consider a variety of short and long-term outcomes including employment, recidivism, household expenditures, spousal spillovers, and other self-reported measures of well-being. We find consistent, robust evidence of precise null effects on the population, including ruling out long-run impacts larger than -$347-$168 in annual earnings and -0.002-0.01 in annual convictions
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August 2023
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Authors: | Finlay, Keith ; Gross, Matthew ; Lieberman, Carl ; Luh, Elizabeth ; Mueller-Smith, Michael |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (issuing body) |
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Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Geldstrafe | Fine | Strafverfahren | Criminal procedure | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | USA | United States |
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Online Resource
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white) |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w31581 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w31581 [DOI] |
Classification: | H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337814