Leave the Door Open? Prison Conditions and Recidivism
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چکیده
We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with an open-cell one. deal endogenous assignment inmates to different regimes using variation that is driven by nearby prisons’ overcrowding. Switching for year reduces around 6 percentage points. The effects are largest low levels education and weak violent hardened criminals. (JEL K14, K42)
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1945-7782', '1945-7790']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20190038