Plausibly Exogenous [1205] - Incarceration (05/21/2023)

LHS Variable
Health outcomes

RHS Variable
Incarceration

Source of Exogenous Variation
A 1994 criminal justice reform as a natural experiment that created exogenous variation in the age at which offenders were first incarcerated: because of policy change, incarceration occurred earlier than it would have otherwise

- Bacak, Andersen, and Schnittker (2019), “The effect of timing of incarceration on mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment”