The External Effects of Black Male Incarceration on Black Females
研究黑人男性监禁率上升导致的性别比例失衡如何影响年轻黑人女性的行为，发现监禁率提高降低了非婚生育率，同时提升了教育程度和早期就业率，有助于解释1990年代黑人女性社会经济状况的种族差距缩小。
This article examines how the increase in the incarceration ofblack men and the sex ratio imbalance it induces shape the behaviorof young black women. Combining data from the Bureau of Justice Statisticsand the Current Population Survey to match male incarceration rateswith individual observations over two decades, I show that black maleincarceration lowers the odds of black nonmarital teenage fertilitywhile increasing young black women's school attainment and earlyemployment. These results can account for the sharp bridging of theracial gap over the 1990s for a range of socioeconomic outcomes amongfemales. (c) 2011 by The University of Chicago. Allrights reserved.