Pushers: The Effect of Incarceration on Earnings from Drug Trafficking

Valerie L Wright

Pushers: The Effect of Incarceration on Earnings from Drug Trafficking

Valerie L Wright

Criminology and Sociology

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Abstract

To shed light on the influence of imprisonment on illegal drug earnings this study uses a person-period sample to estimate a tobit regression model for adolescents and young adult male ex-offenders and non-offenders using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) for the years 1997-2005. The analysis reveals that the ex-incarcerated earn more drug trafficking income than individuals that have never been incarcerated. In addition, the results suggest that spending a significant amount of time incarcerated reduces social and human capital and increases earnings in illegal opportunity structures. Finally, the study shows that racial and ethnic minorities with jail or prison records make less from drug sales than their white counterparts.

Original language	English
Number of pages	29
Journal	Justice Policy Journal
Volume	12
Issue number	2
State	Published - 2015

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