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Essays On Criminal Behaviour, Human Capital Formation, And Mental Health, Diego F. Salazar
Essays On Criminal Behaviour, Human Capital Formation, And Mental Health, Diego F. Salazar
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My thesis consists of three chapters that contribute to the study of some of the negative consequences of incarceration and their relation with the life-cycle choices of juvenile offenders.
Chapter 2 studies the causal relationship between incarceration and mental health problems. In this chapter, I use different matching estimators to identify the causal effects of incarceration over several dimensions of mental health using data from a survey of juvenile offenders, the Pathways to Desistance (PTD) survey. My findings show that being incarcerated for the first time, between 17 and 18 years old, increases depression by at least 0.18 standard deviations …