Arbeitspapier
Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are used primarily as a source of labor using evidence from British colonial Nigeria. We digitized sixty-five years of archival records on prisons from 1920 to1995andprovidenewestimates on the value of prison labor and the effects of labor demand shocks on incarceration. We find that prison labor was economically valuable to the colonial regime, making up a significant share of colonial public works expenditure. Positive economic shocks increased incarceration rates over the colonial period. This result is reversed in the postcolonial period, where prison labor is not a notable feature of state public finance. We document a significant reduction in contemporary trustin legal institutions, like police, in areas with high historic exposure to colonial imprisonment. The resulting reduction in trust is specific to legal institutions today.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: African Economic History Working Paper Series ; No. 52/2019
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Social Security and Public Pensions
Coercive Labor Markets
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania
Economic Development: General
Institutions and Growth
- Thema
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Prison
Taxation
Convict Labor
Public Works
Economic Shocks
Trust
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Archibong, Belinda
Obikili, Nonso
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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African Economic History Network (AEHN)
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s.l.
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Archibong, Belinda
- Obikili, Nonso
- African Economic History Network (AEHN)
Entstanden
- 2020
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