Witt, Robert; Witte, Ann Dryden - 2022
Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach Robert Witt and Ann Dryden Witte NBER … interest in discerning the impact of this costly increase on crime rates. Estimates of impact vary. We obtain new estimates of … higher levels of imprisonment and increases in labor force participation of women are related to significantly higher crime …