Insights

All Insights

Watch, read, or listen to all insights.
Filter by
Research Briefs·May 23, 2024

Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation

Amanda Y. Agan,  Andrew Garin, Dmitri K. Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal Yang
Removing a previously obtained criminal record does not improve labor market outcomes, on average, with the notable exception of participation...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
Research Briefs·Apr 23, 2024

Early Predictors of Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice Involvement

Andrew Jordan, Ezra Karger, and Derek Neal
Detailed measures of early academic achievement and socioeconomic status are powerful predictors of future criminal justice involvement; however, while reforms...
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty, Higher Education & Workforce Training
Research Briefs·Apr 18, 2024

Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job? The Effects of Income on Crime

Jens Ludwig and Kevin Schnepel
Policies that reduce economic desperation reduce property crime (and hence overall crime rates) but have little effect on violent crime.
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Podcasts episode·Apr 16, 2024

Which Companies Discriminate Most? Experimental Evidence on Callback Rates by Applicant Race and Gender

Tess Vigeland and Evan K. Rose
A small number of companies are responsible for a substantial amount of the discrimination in today’s labor market. Who are...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
Research Briefs·Apr 8, 2024

A Discrimination Report Card

Patrick Kline, Evan K. Rose, and Christopher R. Walters
A new statistical methodology is used to grade the race and gender callback gaps of large US employers and shows...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
Research Briefs·Feb 27, 2024

Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare

Amy Finkelstein, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Frank Schilbach, and Jonathan Zhang
Recessions reduce mortality, driven largely by the external health effects of reduced economic activity (such as decreases in air pollution);...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Research Briefs·Nov 30, 2023

Laffer’s Day in Court: The Revenue Effects of Criminal Justice Fees and Fines

Evan K. Rose and Samuel Norris
For a small subset of criminal defendants, often those who are poor, Black, and charged with felonies, court fines are...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Research Briefs·Nov 9, 2023

Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment

Yuval Ofek-Shanny, Avner Strulov-Shlain, and Dan Zeltzer
Applicants who receive home-care subsidies from more lenient evaluators experience large adverse health effects. Their adult children do not experience...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Research Briefs·Oct 19, 2023

Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions

Dmitri Koustas, Amanda Y. Agan, Andrew Garin, and Alexandre Mas
Retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors leads to employment benefits forindividuals who (likely) requested their reductions, but no benefits among the...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages