In this Review, we assess how mass incarceration, a monumental American policy
experiment, has affected families over the past five decades. We reach four conclusions …

When studying an outcome Y that is weakly positive but can equal zero (eg, earnings),
researchers frequently estimate an average treatment effect (ATE) for a “log-like” …

More than two million US households have an eviction case filed against them each year.
Policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to …

This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

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

We propose a nonparametric test for the exclusion and monotonicity assumptions invoked in
instrumental variable (IV) designs based on the random assignment of cases to judges. We …

Classic criminological scholarship emphasizes sibling correlations in delinquency, criminal
offending, and system contact. This foundational work, however, has mostly not translated to …

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 …

This book presents a comprehensive view of the financial and non-financial consequences
of criminal behavior, crime prevention, and society's response to crime. Crime costs are far …

Each year in the US, more than two million renter households report being at risk of eviction,
yet there is little causal evidence on how evictions affect low-income households. We …