Calendrier du 21 octobre 2021
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 21/10/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
Using zoom
LOKEN Katrin V. (NHH)
Prison, Mental Health and Family Spillovers
écrit avec Laura Khoury and Manudeep Bhuller
Mental health is known to impact multiple longer run education and labor market outcomes. Correlational evidence has shown that the prevalence of mental health issues is much higher in the inmate population than in the general population, but it remains silent on causality. We exploit the strengths of the Norwegian setting and the richness of the data to accurately measure the impact of incarceration on the health of the defendants and their family members. First, we use an event-study design around the case decision event. The event study is complemented with an instrumental variable (IV) strategy that takes advantage of the random assignment of criminal cases to judges who differ in their leniency. Both methods consistently show that the positive correlation is misleading: incarceration has a negative impact on the prevalence of mental health disorders among defendants as measured by mental-health related visits to health care professionals. We further demonstrate that this effect lasts post release and is unlikely to be fully driven by a shift in health care demand. Family members also experience positive spillovers on their mental health, especially spouses. Assessing mechanisms, we find suggestive evidence of the positive role of in-prison mental health programs and milder prison conditions in improving mental health.
Behavior seminar
Du 21/10/2021 de 11:00 à 12:00
Salle R2-21 - Campus Jourdan - 75014 PARIS
LEPINTEUR Anthony (Université de Luxembourg)
Job insecurity, savings and consumption: an Italian experiment
Job insecurity has consequences outside of the labour market. Using the 2012 Fornero reform as a natural experiment, a difference-in-differences framework based on a firm-size discontinuity and individual data coming from the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth, our results suggest that greater job insecurity reduces consumption and increases savings. We also show that the changes in consumption and savings are a function of the family structure and of the rank in the household income distribution. Last, greater job insecurity reduces all types of consumption except food expenditures and the extra-savings it caused are either invested in safe assets or kept on savings account.