TY  - JOUR
AU  - Witt,Robert
AU  - Witte,Ann Dryden
TI  - Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation:  A Time-Series Approach
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6786
PY  - 1998
Y2  - November 1998
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6786
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6786.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert Witt
E-Mail: r.witt@surrey.ac.uk

Ann Dryden Witte
500 SE Mizner Blvd., # A904
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Tel: 561 361 4398
E-Mail: awitte@wellesley.edu
AB  - Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach Robert Witt and Ann Dryden Witte NBER Working Paper No. 6786 November 1998 JEL No.  K14, H0 Rapidly growing prison population in the US has led to an upsurge of interest in discerning the impact of this costly increase on crime rates. Estimates of impact vary. We obtain new estimates of the impact of prisons using different data, specification and estimation technique than previous work. We find that both higher levels of imprisonment and increases in labor force participation of women are related to significantly higher crime rate. The impact of female labor force participation is much larger than the impact of imprisonment.
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