Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311961 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17522
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Many previously incarcerated individuals are rearrested following release from prison. We investigate whether encouragement to use reentry support services reduces rearrest. Field experiment participants are offered a monetary incentive to complete different dosages of visits, either three or five, to a support service provider. The incentive groups increased visits, and one extra visit reduces rearrests three years after study enrollment by six percentage points. The results are driven by Black participants who are more likely to take up treatment and benefit the most from visits. The study speaks to the importance of considering first-stage heterogeneity and heterogeneous treatment effects.
Subjects: 
recidivism
reentry support services
dosage effects
field experiment
JEL: 
K42
C93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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