In: Background checks
A number of advocates support ban-the-box laws, in spite of a lack of demonstrable evidence that these laws work, or contrary…
Read MoreA paper from Evan K. Rose (U.C. Berkley) was published in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Labor Economics in 2021,…
Read MoreIn 2021, CDIA opposed a bill that would dramatically reduce the ability of employers and landlords to conduct criminal background checks…
Read MoreWalter Olsen, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, wrote a piece in January…
Read MoreRyan Sherrard is a professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. candidate in Economics. Sherrard…
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In December 2019, the NCLC issued a report, Broken Records Redux: How Errors by Criminal Background Check Companies Continue to Harm…
Read MoreProf. 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…
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On March 13, 2019, there was a joint hearing of two subcommittees on the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform and…
Read MoreProf. Jennifer Doleac is an Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, Director of the Justice Tech Lab, a Research Fellow…
Read MoreBan the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment, which appeared in the Feb. 2018 edition of The Quarterly…
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