Over 600,000 people are now being released from prisons each year. Many suffer from a
variety of serious difficulties as they attempt to reenter society. Among the most challenging …

This article addresses the reentry challenges faced by low-skilled men released from US
prisons. The author empirically characterizes the increases in incarceration occurring since …

… Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll analyze the shocking … Raphael and Stoll carefully
evaluate changes in crime … By contrast, Raphael and Stoll demonstrate that legislative changes to …

This paper reviews trends in housing affordability in the US over the past four decades.
There is little evidence that owner-occupied housing has become less affordable. In contrast, …

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between unemployment and crime. Using US
state data, we estimate the effect of unemployment on the rates of seven felony offenses. We …

This paper presents an employment-based measure of intra-metropolitan accessibility to
employment opportunities that provides strong evidence supporting the spatial mismatch …

We use a sample of tenth-graders to test for peer-group influences on the propensity to
engage in five activities: drug use, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, church going, and the …

The rise in housing costs in California has far exceeded the national inflation rate. During the
past three years, housing prices in five coastal counties increased by more than 60 percent…

In this paper, we analyze the effect of employer‐initiated criminal background checks on the
likelihood that employers hire African Americans. We find that employers who check criminal …

We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion
of the state's population characterized as noncitizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control …