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Data and Code for: The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Samuel Norris, University of Chicago; Matthew Pecenco, Brown University; Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California

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Project Citation: 

Norris, Samuel, Pecenco, Matthew, and Weaver, Jeffrey. Data and Code for: The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-08-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/E132762V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
Every year, millions of Americans experience the incarceration of a family member. Using 30 years of administrative data from Ohio and exploiting differing incarceration propensities of randomly assigned judges, this paper provides the first quasi-experimental estimates of the effects of parental and sibling incarceration in the US. Contrary to conventional wisdom, parental incarceration has a net positive effect on some important outcomes for children, reducing their likelihood of incarceration by 4.9 percentage points and improving their adult neighborhood quality. While estimates on academic performance and teen parenthood are imprecise, we reject large positive or negative effects. Sibling incarceration leads to similar reductions in criminal activity.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources National Institute of Justice (2016-R2-CX-0022); National Science Foundation (1628126); National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Incarceration; Parental Incarceration
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      K14 Criminal Law
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Cuyahoga County, Franklin County, Hamilton County in Ohio
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1973 – 2018
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2017 – 2019
Universe:  View help for Universe Children of incarcerated parents in Cuyahoga County, Franklin County, and Hamilton County 
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data


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