Community-Level Incarceration Rates and the Quality of Local Education Systems in North Carolina
Journal: American Review of Political Economy
Year: 2023

Incarcerationis an important area of study in the United States, which incarcerates morepeople than any other country. Indirect evidence suggests that community levelincarceration rates are related to local school systems. Using a sample of2,145 North Carolina census tracts, we estimate a structural equation model oftract level incarceration rates to address two sets of research questions. First,are elementary school test scoresand student-teacher ratios directly related to local incarceration r