Episode 105: Amanda Agan on how sealing criminal records affects employment

Probable Causation

Amanda Agan talks about how sealing criminal records affects employment.

“Can you Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation” by Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alex Mas, and Crystal Yang.

OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• Probable Causation Episode 9: Michael Mueller-Smith

• “Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment" by Amanda Agan and Sonja Starr.

• Probable Causation Episode 8: Amanda Agan

• "The mark of a criminal record" by Devah Pager.

• "The edge of stigma: An experimental audit of the effects of low-level criminal records on employment" by Christopher Uggen, Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, Ebony Ruhland, and Hilary K. Whitham.

• "Does banning the box help ex-offenders get jobs? Evaluating the effects of a prominent example" by Evan K. Rose.

• "The criminal and labor market impacts of incarceration" by Michael Mueller-Smith.

• "Expungement of criminal convictions: An empirical study" by J.J. Prescott and Sonja Starr.

• "Unmarked: Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes" by Jeffrey Selbin, Justin McCrary, and Joshua Epstein.

• "America's paper prisons: The second chance gap" by Colleen Chien.

• "Misdemeanor Prosecution" by Amanda Agan, Jennifer L. Doleac, and Anna Harvey.

• Probable Causation Episode 51: Amanda Agan and Anna Harvey

• "Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions" by Amanda Y. Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri K. Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal Yang.

• "Is it time to let go of the past? Effect of clean slate regulation on employment and earnings" by Kabir Dasgupta, Keshar Ghimire, and Alexander Plum.

• "Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record" by Zoë Cullen, Will Dobbie, and Mitchell Hoffman.

• Probable Causation Episode 71: Zoë Cullen