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

Version: View help for Version V2

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Project Description

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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Incarceration; Parental Incarceration

JEL Classification:
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      K14 Criminal Law
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

Geographic Coverage: Cuyahoga County, Franklin County, Hamilton County in Ohio

Universe: Children of incarcerated parents in Cuyahoga County, Franklin County, and Hamilton County

Data Type(s): administrative records data

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V2 [2022-02-11]

V1 [2021-08-25]

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