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This data looks at the massive expansion in prison capacity in Texas that occurred in 1993 under Governor Ann Richards, and the effect of that expansion on the number of Black men in prison.
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A data frame with 816 rows and 12 variables
State FIPS code
Year
Number of Black men in prison
Number of White men in prison
Alcohol consumption per capita
Median income
Unemployment rate
Poverty rate
Percentage of the population that is Black
Percentage of the population that is age 15-19
AIDS mortality per 100,000 in t
State name
This data is used in the Synthetic Control chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.
Cunningham and Kang. 2019. “Studying the Effect of Incarceration Shocks to Drug Markets.” Unpublished manuscript. http://www.scunning.com/files/mass_incarceration_and_drug_abuse.pdf
Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.
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