Abstract Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits
of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, yet there is little empirical evidence to …

Two-year community colleges enroll nearly half of all first-time undergraduates in the United
States, but to ambiguous effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students …

We study the causal effect of incarceration on reoffending using discontinuities in North
Carolina's sentencing guidelines. A regression discontinuity analysis shows that 1 year of …

Mass incarceration has fundamental adverse effects that include weakening families and
intimate relationships, altering children's life chances, and undermining communities …

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or coresident
adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's …

We examine the impact of the US drug crisis on children's living arrangements. Because
factors that lead to drug use could also alter family structure, we instrument for the intensity …

We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in
North Carolina and Ohio using two quasi-experimental research designs: discontinuities in …

In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for
marriage by showing how the institution's decline has led to a host of economic woes …

Objectives We examine how parental criminality is associated with offspring education at
different educational stages from primary to tertiary education and conduct separate …

We develop a method to learn about treatment effects in multiple treatment models with
discrete-valued instruments. We allow selection into treatment to be governed by a general …