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Publikováno v:
New England Journal of Medicine. 388:847-852
Autor:
Will Dobbie, Crystal S. Yang
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Perspectives. 35:49-70
In this article, we review a growing empirical literature on the effectiveness and fairness of the US pretrial system and discuss its policy implications. Despite the importance of this stage of the criminal legal process, researchers have only recen
Autor:
Alma Cohen, Crystal S. Yang
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 11:160-191
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republica
Publikováno v:
The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 133:1885-1932
This article develops a new test for identifying racial bias in the context of bail decisions—a high-stakes setting with large disparities between white and black defendants. We motivate our analysis using Becker’s model of racial bias, which pre
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 108:201-240
Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pretrial detention on defendants. This paper uses the detention tendencies of quasi-randomly assigned bail judges to
Autor:
Crystal S. Yang
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Economics. 147:16-29
This paper estimates the impact of local labor market conditions on criminal recidivism using administrative prison records on four million offenders released from 43 states between 2000 and 2013. Exploiting the timing of each offender's release from
Autor:
Crystal S. Yang, Will Dobbie
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
In this paper, we provide a new statistical and legal framework to understand the legality and fairness of predictive algorithms under the Equal Protection Clause. We begin by reviewing the main legal concerns regarding the use of protected character
Autor:
Crystal S. Yang
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 8:289-332
Ten percent of federal judgeships are currently vacant, yet little is known on the impact of these vacancies on criminal justice outcomes. Using judge deaths and pension eligibility as instruments for judicial vacancies, I find that prosecutors decl
Autor:
Crystal S. Yang, Marcella Alsan
This paper studies how changes in deportation fear induced by the roll-out of Secure Communities (SC), a far-reaching immigration enforcement program, affected the demand for safety net programs in the United States. We estimate the spillover effect
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::afb07233bbd19d12482cfd3964d1e1ec
https://doi.org/10.3386/w24731
https://doi.org/10.3386/w24731
Autor:
Crystal S. Yang
Publikováno v:
The American economic review. 107(5)
Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, individuals convicted of drug-related felonies were permanently banned from receiving welfare and food stamps. Since then, over 30 states have opted out of th