Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach / Robert Witt, Ann Dryden Witte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witt, Robert.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Witte, Ann Dryden.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6786.

NBER working paper series no. w6786

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.

Summary:

Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach Robert Witt and Ann Dryden Witte NBER Working Paper No. 6786 November 1998 JEL No. K14, H0 Rapidly growing prison population in the US has led to an upsurge of interest in discerning the impact of this costly increase on crime rates. Estimates of impact vary. We obtain new estimates of the impact of prisons using different data, specification and estimation technique than previous work. We find that both higher levels of imprisonment and increases in labor force participation of women are related to significantly higher crime rate. The impact of female labor force participation is much larger than the impact of imprisonment.

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Print version record

November 1998.