Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders

Keith Finlay

NBER Working Paper No. 13935
Issued in April 2008, Revised in December 2011

---- Acknowledgements ----

I am grateful to David Neumark and David Autor for extensive comments. I have also benefitted from the suggestions of Marigee Bacolod, Francesca Mazzolari, Bob Michael, Anne Polivka, and seminar participants at the 2007 Society of Labor Economists Meetings, the NBER Labor Market Intermediation Conference, the 2007 Southern Economics Association Meetings, the Public Policy Institute of California, and the NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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