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Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed From SSI
Deshpande, Manasi; Mueller-Smith, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
removal, youth are twice as likely to be charged with an illicit income-generating offense than they are to maintain steady …
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Pretrial Juvenile Detention
Baron, E. Jason; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Ryan, Joseph P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
the consequences of this practice for youth, we link the universe of individual public school records in Michigan to …
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The Demand For Protection and the Persistently High Rates of Gun Violence Among Young Black Males
Evans, William N.; Kotowski, Maciej H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to explain both the high level and persistence in gun violence for black males ages 15-24 consistent with the empirical literature. A person may carry a gun for instrumental (i.e., criminal) reasons or for its perceived protective benefit. Discerning underlying...
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Risky behavior among youths : an economic analysis
Gruber, Jonathan (ed.) - 2001
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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...
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Faith and Assimilation : Italian Immigrants in the US
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...
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The Effects of Youth Employment on Crime : Evidence from New York City Lotteries
Kessler, Judd B.; Tahamont, Sarah; Gelber, Alexander M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent policy discussions have proposed government-guaranteed jobs, including for youth. One key potential benefit of … youth employment is a reduction in criminal justice contact. Prior work on summer youth employment programs has documented … among "at-risk" youth in the year or two after the program. We add to this picture by studying randomized lotteries for …
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Office-Based Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Arrests
Deza, Monica; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We estimate the effect of local access to office-based mental healthcare on juvenile arrest outcomes. We leverage variation in the number of mental healthcare offices within a county over the period 1999 to 2016 in a two-way fixed-effects model. Office-based treatment is the most common modality...
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Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism? Evidence From the Make-it-Right Program
Shem-Ṭov, Yotam; Raphael, Steven; Skog, Alissa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies the effect of a restorative justice intervention targeted at youth ages 13 to 17 facing felony … of MIR on the likelihood that a youth will be rearrested in the four years following randomization. Assignment to MIR … juvenile restorative justice conferencing can reduce recidivism among youth charged with relatively serious offenses and can be …
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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data
Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this population for the United States has historically been...
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