TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tyler,John H.
AU  - Kling,Jeffrey R.
TI  - Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry into the Mainstream Labor Market
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12114
PY  - 2006
Y2  - March 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12114
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12114.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John H. Tyler
Box 1938
340 Brook Street
Brown University
Providence, RI  02912
Tel: 401/863-1036
Fax: 401/863-1276
E-Mail: john_tyler@brown.edu

Jeffrey R. Kling
Congressional Budget Office
3403 Ordway St NW
Washington, DC 20016
E-Mail: jeffrey.r.kling@gmail.com
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-03-27
AB  - We estimate the post-release economic effects of participation in prison-based General Educational Development (GED) programs using a panel of earnings records and a rich set of individual information from administrative data in the state of Florida. Fixed effects estimates of the impact of participating in the GED education program show post-release quarterly earnings gains of about 15 percent for program participants relative to observationally similar non-participants. We also show, however, that these earnings gains accrue only to racial/ethnic minority offenders and any GED-related earnings gains for this group seem to fade in the third year after release from prison.  Estimates comparing offenders who obtained a GED to those who participated in GED-related prison education programs but left prison without a GED show no systematic evidence of an independent impact of the credential itself on post-release quarterly earnings.
ER  -