The Local Economic Impacts of Prisons
研究美国1990年代监狱开设及德克萨斯州选址竞争，发现监狱增加公共就业但未显著带动私营部门，整体就业几乎一对一增长，附近社区房价下降且低收入家庭增多。
Abstract I examine the economic consequences of prisons on local communities using two complementary approaches. The first uses prison openings during the 1990s across the United States, and the second exploits the results of the prison site-selection competitions in Texas. Prisons bring substantial and persistent gains in public employment. However, additional jobs at the prisons generate little spillover effects on private sector employment and fail to provide a major boost to local economic activity—overall resulting in approximately a one-for-one increase in local employment. Neighborhoods closest to prisons also experience declines in housing values and demographic shifts toward low-socioeconomic status households.