Peer Effects in Juvenile Incarceration: Inside the Black Box

Peer Effects in Juvenile Incarceration: Inside the Black Box

Statistics Student Seminar
Feb 28, 2014, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Megan Stevenson
Using an administrative data set on all adolescents released from juvenile incarceration in the state of Florida from July 2006 to July 2011 I find that exposure to high risk peers while incarcerated has a large and statistically significant effect on criminal behavior after release. The identification comes from within-facility variation in cohort risk levels; various tests of the identifying...