开始:VCALENDAR版本:2.0 PRODID: / /学院Labor Economics//Zope//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU DTSTART:19810329T020000 TZNAME:CEST TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU DTSTART:19961027T030000 TZNAME:CET TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30441496095200@conference.iza.org LOCATION;CHARSET=UTF-8: DESCRIPTION:This paper studies the causal impact of court deferrals, a legal strategy to help defendants \navoid a felony conviction record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of \nfirst-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit two natural experiments \nin Harris County, Texas, in which defendants appearing in court one day versus the next \nexperienced abruptly different likelihoods of deferral. In 1994 deferral rates dropped by 34 \npercentage points the day following the implementation of a penal code reform; in 2007 \ndeferral rates increased by 22 percentage points the day after the unexpected failure of a \nballot initiative to expand the county jail. Using administrative data and local polynomial \nregression discontinuity methods, we find robust evidence consistent across both \nexperiments that regimes with expanded use of court deferrals generated substantially \nlower rates of reoffending and unemployment over a five-year follow-up period. Additional \nanalysis delves further into the timing, nature and incidence of these impacts. Together \nour results suggest that increasing the use of deferral programs may be an attractive and \nfeasible option for a jurisdiction seeking to reduce the fiscal cost and community impact of \nits criminal justice system. SEQUENCE:1 X-APPLE-TRAVEL-ADVISORY-BEHAVIOR:AUTOMATIC SUMMARY:IZA Seminar: Avoiding Convictions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders by Kevin Schnepel (Simon Fraser University) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20170530T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20170530T000000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR