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Bushway, Shawn D. Cabreros, Irineo Paige, Jessica Welburn Schwam, Daniel Wenger, Jeffrey B. |
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Barred from Employment: More Than Half of Unemployed Men in their 30s Had a Criminal History of Arrest Science Advances 8,7 (18 February 2022): DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj6992. Also: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj6992 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Science Keyword(s): Arrests; Incarceration/Jail; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We investigate what portion of the pool of unemployed men in the United States have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated by age 35. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997, we estimate 64% of unemployed men have been arrested, and 46% have been convicted. Unexpectedly, these rates vary only slightly by race and ethnicity. Further investigation of other outcomes such as marriage, education, household net worth, and earnings shows large differences between unemployed men who have a criminal history record and those who do not. One major implication of these findings is that employment services should focus more on the special challenges facing unemployed men with criminal history records. A second implication is that statistical discrimination against unemployed members of racial minority groups, to avoid hiring those with criminal histories, is both illegal and ineffective. |
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Bushway, Shawn D., Irineo Cabreros, Jessica Welburn Paige, Daniel Schwam and Jeffrey B. Wenger. "Barred from Employment: More Than Half of Unemployed Men in their 30s Had a Criminal History of Arrest." Science Advances 8,7 (18 February 2022): DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj6992.
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Cheng, Siwei Brand, Jennie E. Zhou, Xiang Xie, Yu Hout, Michael |
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Heterogeneous Returns to College over the Life Course Science Advances 7,51 (15 December 2021): DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg7641. Also: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg7641 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Science Keyword(s): College Graduates; High School Completion/Graduates; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Propensity Scores; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. College graduates earn higher wages than high school graduates by age 30. Among women, the advantages of a college degree decline somewhat as they age, although they are still substantial at age 50; for men, the advantage of a college degree grows throughout the life cycle. Most previous research on returns to higher education has focused on income at a single point in time or averaged over multiple years; our contribution is to study how returns vary by age. We also document how these patterns vary by the propensity of graduating from college. We find modest wage returns for mid-propensity college graduates, but large returns for low-propensity and, for men, high-propensity college graduates. Our results rely on propensity score-based matching combined with multilevel growth curve models applied to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort. |
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Cheng, Siwei, Jennie E. Brand, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie and Michael Hout. "Heterogeneous Returns to College over the Life Course." Science Advances 7,51 (15 December 2021): DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg7641.
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