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100			_aAgan, Amanda _9123479
245		4	_aThe Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions
260			_bAmerican Economic Review: Insights
260			_c2024
300			_a341-358
520			_aWe study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, California, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random order, without requiring input or action from affected individuals. Linking records of reductions to administrative tax data, we find employment benefits for individuals who (likely) requested their reduction, consistent with selection, but no benefits among the larger subset of individuals whose records were reduced proactively. A field experiment notifying a subset of individuals about their proactive reduction also shows null results, implying that lack of awareness is unlikely to explain our findings.
650			_a Criminal Law
650			_a Enforcement of Law _9123480
650			_a Field Experiments _978831
650			_a State and Local Government _9123481
650			_a Time Allocation and Labor Supply _9123482
650			_aIllegal Behavior _9123483
700			_a Garin, Andrew _9123484
700			_a Koustas, Dmitri _9123485
700			_a Mas, Alexandre _9123486
700			_a Yang, Crystal S. _9123487
856			_uhttps://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20230255
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