Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration
利用爱荷华州行政数据，通过随机分配的案件管理员的推荐率作为工具变量，估计居住住房对再监禁的影响，发现居住住房并未减少再监禁，反而因暴力犯罪和技术违规增加了再监禁。
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison. For many, the transition back to society includes a mandatory stay in residential housing. I estimate the effect of residential housing on reincarceration using administrative data from Iowa. I address selection into residential housing by instrumenting for residential housing assignment with the recommendation rate of randomly assigned case managers. I find no evidence that Iowa’s costly investment in residential housing results in reduced reincarceration relative to parole. Instead, residential housing increases reincarceration due to violent crimes and technical violations, while decreasing drug and public order crimes.