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Last month, to coincide with Second Chances Month, the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform issued a report, A better path forward...
A number of advocates support ban-the-box laws, in spite of a lack of demonstrable evidence that these laws work, or contrary...
A paper from Evan K. Rose (U.C. Berkley) was published in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Labor Economics in 2021,...
Walter Olsen, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, wrote a piece in January...
Ryan Sherrard is a professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. candidate in Economics. Sherrard...
Prof. Jennifer Doleac is an Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, Director of the Justice Tech Lab, a Research Fellow at IZA, and...
On March 13, 2019, there was a joint hearing of two subcommittees on the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform and...
Prof. Jennifer Doleac is an Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, Director of the Justice Tech Lab, a Research Fellow...
Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment, which appeared in the Feb. 2018 edition of The Quarterly...
2017
The Urban Institute issued a report, Criminal Background Checks and Access to Jobs. According to the abstract Despite significant efforts by...
In 2016, two senior economists at the Boston Fed wrote a paper, The Effect of Changing Employers’ Access to Criminal Histories...
Dr. Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M) and Benjamin Hansen (Univ. of Oregon) wrote a paper, The Unintended Consequences of ‘Ban the Box’:...