The Executive Session on Community Corrections has released a new paper entitled From Funnels to Large-Scale Irrigation: Changing the…
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s short- and long-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden.…
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…