Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Intergenerational Risks of Criminal Involvement and Incarceration

1 I am grateful for funding support for this project received from the Russell Sage Foundation. This study benefited from exceptional research assistance provided by Claudia Sitgraves. This was prepared for the NYU Law/Public Policy Colloquium and portions for inclusion as a Book Chapter in the edited volume, The Increasing Prison Population in the United States: What has it done for us and wha...

The Effects of Long Term Incarceration

Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Effects: A

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in different countries at different times. Another one is that these studies use different identification stra...

Intergenerational Effects of Endocrine Disorder on Metabolism

Article history: Received 27 January 2017 Accepted 30 January 2017 Available online 1 February 2017 Compared to the exposure to the external environment, whether and how the internal endocrine environment can illicit intergenerational effects is less understood. Hyperandrogenism is a common endocrine disorder that happens in 5–10% of reproductive-aged women. Previous animal studies suggest that...

The Intergenerational Effects of Early Childbearing

Since World War II, the average age at which women experience their first birth has drifted up, but since 1986 there has been a resurgence of births to teenagers. Just as early fertility appears to adversely affect the life chances of the teen mother, it may also have negative effects on her children. We hypothesize that when the children of teen mothers are young adults, they will tend to have...