Data and Code for: The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Boston University; Stephen Billings, University of Colorado-Boulder; David Deming, Harvard University

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Citation:

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew, Billings, Stephen, and Deming, David. Data and Code for: The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime: Code. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-10-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192981V1-159142

To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E192981V1.

Project Description

Summary: Schools face important policy tradeoffs in monitoring and managing student behavior. Strict discipline policies may stigmatize suspended students and expose them to the criminal justice system at a young age. But strict discipline also acts as a deterrent which may limit harmful spillovers of misbehavior onto other students. This paper estimates the net impact of attending a school with a history of strict discipline on achievement, educational attainment and adult criminal activity. Using exogenous variation in school assignment caused by a large and sudden boundary change and a supplementary design based on principal switches, we show that schools with higher suspension rates have substantial negative long-run impacts. Students assigned to a school that has a one standard deviation higher suspension rate are 15 to 20 percent more likely to be arrested and incarcerated as adults. We also find negative impacts on educational attainment. The negative impacts of attending a high suspension school are largest for males and students of color.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: education; education policy; crime

JEL Classification:
I24 Education and Inequality

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