The external effects of black male incarceration on black females

This article examines how the increase in the incarceration of black men and the sex ratio imbalance it induces shape the behavior of young black women. Combining data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Current Population Survey to match male incarceration rates with individual observatio...

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Published in:Journal of labor economics 2011-01, Vol.29 (1), p.1-35
Main Author: Mechoulan, Stéphane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
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Black communities
Black people
Criminal justice
Criminal punishment
Educational attainment
Employment
Females
Frau
Frauenerwerbstätigkeit
Fruchtbarkeit
Impact analysis
Imprisonment
Level of education
Males
Mann
Men
Prisoners
Prisons
Schwarzer
Sex distribution
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic status
Strafvollzug
Studies
Teenage pregnancy
U.S.A
USA
Working women
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Summary:This article examines how the increase in the incarceration of black men and the sex ratio imbalance it induces shape the behavior of young black women. Combining data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Current Population Survey to match male incarceration rates with individual observations over two decades, I show that black male incarceration lowers the odds of black nonmarital teenage fertility while increasing young black women’s school attainment and early employment. These results can account for the sharp bridging of the racial gap over the 1990s for a range of socioeconomic outcomes among females.
ISSN:0734-306X
1537-5307
DOI:10.1086/656370