| texas {causaldata} | R Documentation |
Data on prison capacity expansion in Texas
Description
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.
Usage
texas
Format
A data frame with 816 rows and 12 variables
- statefip
State FIPS code
- year
Year
- bmprison
Number of Black men in prison
- wmprison
Number of White men in prison
- alcohol
Alcohol consumption per capita
- income
Median income
- ur
Unemployment rate
- poverty
Poverty rate
- black
Percentage of the population that is Black
- perc1519
Percentage of the population that is age 15-19
- aidscapita
AIDS mortality per 100,000 in t
- state
State name
Details
This data is used in the Synthetic Control chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.
Source
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 Unpublished manuscript.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
References
Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.