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Title: Essays in Labor Economics

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: This dissertation uses the tools of labor economics to understand how individuals respond to changes in the composition of communities. The first two chapters focus on incarceration. Because men are much more likely to be incarcerated than women, increased incarceration skews the sex ratio in affected communities. Chapters 1 and 2 examine how incarceration affects fertility, partner choice, marriage, and infant and maternal health. The third chapter investigates how a large influx of immigrants into a rural community affects native workers' occupation and migration choices. Many factors influence incarceration, including crime and enforcement practices, which complicates the identification of the effect of increased male incarceration on women's family formation patterns. State sentencing reforms were important drivers of the growth in incarceration which occurred between 1990 and 2000. In chapters 1 and 2, I leverage changes in incarceration levels driven by the North Carolina Structured Sentencing Act (SSA). Enacted in October 1994, this policy increased the severity of . . .

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Authors: O'Keefe, Siobhan Montgomery

Institution: University of California, Davis

Department: Economics

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Publisher Location: Davis, California

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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