PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Robert Apel
AU  - Kathleen Powell
TI  - Level of Criminal Justice Contact and Early Adult Wage Inequality
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.09
DP  - 2019 Feb 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 198--222
VI  - 5
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/1/198.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/1/198.full
AB  - This study explores heterogeneity in the relationship between criminal justice contact and early adult wages using unconditional quantile regression models with sibling fixed effects, estimated separately by race-ethnicity. The findings support the contention that the relationship between criminal justice contact and wages is heterogeneous in three respects: level of contact, race, and location in the wage distribution. First, entry-level contacts in the form of arrest are largely uncorrelated with wages, whereas wage gaps are evident following late-stage contacts in the form of jail or prison incarceration. Second, the wage gap from incarceration is observable among black respondents, but not whites or Latinos. Third, the size of the wage gap from incarceration is approximately U-shaped with respect to the black wage distribution.