Achievement

Steven Raphael (PI) recently published an edited volume that evaluates the benefits and costs of the three decade increase in U.S. incarceration rates. Several IGERT faculty contributed chapters to the analysis. Raphael wrote a chapter decomposing the policy and behavioral determinants of the 400 percent increase in incarceration rates. Rucker Johnson wrote a chapter on the effects of incarceration on the welfare of children left behind, and John Ellwood wrote a chapter on the extent to which state spending on prisons crowds out state spending on other programs (for example, k-12 and higher ed). Finally, Amy Lerman (IGERT trainee) wrote a chapter for this book analyzing the effect of incarceration on the psychological predisposition of inmates towards violent behavior.