Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/80221
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2004-10
Publisher: 
Brown University, Department of Economics, Providence, RI
Abstract: 
We estimate the post-release economic effects of participation in prison-based General Educational Development (GED) programs using a panel of earnings records and a rich set of individual information from administrative data in the state of Florida. Fixed effects estimates of the impact of participating in the GED education program show post-release quarterly earnings gains of about 15 percent for program participants relative to observationally similar nonparticipants. We also show, however, that these earnings gains accrue only to racial/ethnic minority offenders and any GED-related earnings gains for this group seem to fade in the third year after release from prison. Estimates comparing offenders who obtained a GED to those who participated in GED-related prison education programs but left prison without a GED show no systematic evidence of an independent impact of the credential itself on post-release quarterly earnings. – Incarceration ; GED ; Earnings
JEL: 
J31
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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