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Level of Criminal Justice Contact and Early Adult Wage Inequality

Robert Apel, Kathleen Powell
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2019, 5 (1) 198-222; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.09
Robert Apel
Professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, 123 Washington St., Newark, NJ 07102
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    Density of Hourly Wage

    Source: Authors’ estimates from respondents’ last available round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, rounds 1–17 (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015).

    Note: Estimates are unweighted. The distributions derive from the full sample, not the sibling subsample. The criminal justice contact groups are not mutually exclusive.

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    Full Quantile Regression Estimates of the Relationship Between Arrest and Hourly Wage

    Source: Authors’ estimates from respondents’ last available round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, rounds 1–17 (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015).

    Note: Estimates are unweighted. The coefficients derive from unconditional quantile regression models of log hourly wage with sibling fixed effects, with cluster-robust standard errors obtained from the bootstrap with 250 replications. The confidence intervals are 90 percent (light gray) and 95 percent (dark gray). For graphing purposes, the coefficients and confidence intervals are censored at +0.3 and –0.5. The solid horizontal line is drawn at zero to judge statistical significance, whereas the dashed horizontal lines are drawn to judge substantive significance. Specifically, the long-dashed lines mark a small effect size (|d| = 0.20), and the short-dashed line marks a medium effect size (|d| = 0.50).

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    Full Quantile Regression Estimates of the Relationship Between Incarceration and Hourly Wage

    Source: Authors’ estimates from respondents’ last available round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, rounds 1–17 (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015).

    Note: Estimates are unweighted. The coefficients derive from unconditional quantile regression models of log hourly wage with sibling fixed effects, with cluster-robust standard errors obtained from the bootstrap with 250 replications. The confidence intervals are 90 percent (light gray) and 95 percent (dark gray). For graphing purposes, the coefficients and confidence intervals are censored at +0.3 and –0.7. The solid horizontal line is drawn at zero to judge statistical significance, whereas the dashed horizontal lines are drawn to judge substantive significance. Specifically, the long-dashed lines mark a small effect size (|d| = 0.20), and the short-dashed line marks a medium effect size (|d| = 0.50).

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    Implied Relationship Between Criminal Justice Contact and Hourly Wage in 2016 Dollars, Black Respondents

    Source: Authors’ estimates from respondents’ last available round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, rounds 1–17 (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015).

    Note: Estimates are unweighted. The coefficients derive from unconditional quantile regression models of log hourly wage with sibling fixed effects, and average over the difference in exponentiated marginal predictions.

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    Cumulative Distribution of Hourly Wage, by Criminal Justice Contact and Race/Ethnicity

    Source: Authors’ estimates from respondents’ last available round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, rounds 1–17 (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015).

    Note: Estimates are unweighted. The distributions derive from the full sample, not the sibling subsample. The criminal justice contact groups are not mutually exclusive.

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    • RESEARCH ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONTACT AND WAGE INEQUALITY
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