Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation, and Adult Crime: Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness | Zendy

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Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation, and Adult Crime: Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness

Author(s) -

Özkan Eren,

Naci Mocan

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

the review of economics and statistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 8.999

H-Index - 165

eISSN - 1530-9142

pISSN - 0034-6535

DOI - 10.1162/rest_a_00872

Subject(s) - recidivism , imprisonment , juvenile delinquency , punishment (psychology) , graduation (instrument) , juvenile , criminology , propensity score matching , property crime , violent crime , random assignment , harshness , psychology , demographic economics , economics , social psychology , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , noise, vibration, and harshness , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , biology , vibration , genetics

This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile crime punishment on high school completion and adult recidivism using administrative data from a southern U.S. state. We exploit random assignment of cases to judges and use idiosyncratic judge stringency in imprisonment to estimate the causal effect of incarceration. We find that juvenile incarceration increases the propensity of being convicted for a drug offense in adulthood while it lowers the propensity to be convicted of a property crime. Juvenile incarceration has also a detrimental effect on high school completion for earlier cohorts, but it has no impact on later cohorts.

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