Arbeitspapier
Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation
I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data from Italy and combining quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods to achieve both a credible identification and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing channels, I find that work in unskilled prison jobs impacts convicts on longer or shorter terms differently. Increasing work time by 16 hours per month reduces by between 3 and 10 percentage points the reincarceration rate, within three years of release, of convicts on terms longer than six months – because prison work counteracts the rapid depreciation of earning ability experienced by these convicts. For those on shorter terms, the analogous increase leads instead to a re-incarceration rate that is up to 9 percentage points higher, because of a liquidity effect that weakens deterrence.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13446
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Coercive Labor Markets
- Thema
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prison labor
prisoner rehabilitation
crime
recidivism
re-incarceration
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zanella, Giulio
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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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
- Zanella, Giulio
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2020
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