Daza Sebastian, Palloni Alberto, Jones Jerrett
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Center for Demography of Health of Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Demography. 2020 Apr;57(2):577-598. doi: 10.1007/s13524-020-00869-5.
Previous research has suggested that incarceration has negative implications for individuals' well-being, health, and mortality. Most of these studies, however, have not followed former prisoners over an extended period and into older adult ages, when the risk of health deterioration and mortality is the greatest. Contributing to this literature, this study is the first to employ the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to estimate the long-run association between individual incarceration and mortality over nearly 40 years. We also supplement those analyses with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). We then use these estimates to investigate the implications of the U.S. incarceration regime and the post-1980 incarceration boom for the U.S. health and mortality disadvantage relative to industrialized peer countries (the United Kingdom).
先前的研究表明,监禁对个人的幸福、健康和死亡率有负面影响。然而,这些研究大多没有对曾经入狱的人进行长期跟踪,也没有跟踪到老年阶段,而在这个阶段,健康恶化和死亡的风险是最大的。为这一文献做出贡献的是,本研究首次采用收入动态面板研究(PSID)来估计近40年来个人监禁与死亡率之间的长期关联。我们还利用1979年全国青年纵向调查(NLSY79)的数据对这些分析进行补充。然后,我们利用这些估计结果来研究美国的监禁制度以及1980年后监禁人数的激增对美国相对于工业化同侪国家(英国)在健康和死亡率方面的劣势所产生的影响。