TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finlay,Keith
AU  - Gross,Matthew
AU  - Lieberman,Carl
AU  - Luh,Elizabeth
AU  - Mueller-Smith,Michael G.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Impact of Criminal Financial Sanctions: A Multi-State Analysis of Survey and Administrative Data 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
KW  - jelc
KW  - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity
KW  - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
N1  - August 2023; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We estimate the impact of financial sanctions in the U.S. criminal justice system using nine distinct natural experiments across five states. These regression discontinuity designs capture a range of enforcement levels ($17-$6,000) and institutional environments, providing robust causal evidence and external validity. We leverage survey and administrative data to consider a variety of short and long-term outcomes including employment, recidivism, household expenditures, spousal spillovers, and other self-reported measures of well-being. We find consistent, robust evidence of precise null effects on the population, including ruling out long-run impacts larger than -$347-$168 in annual earnings and -0.002-0.01 in annual convictions
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31581
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31581
ER  -