Anna R. Haskins
Unintended Consequences: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness and Later Special Education Placement
Columbia University
though sociologists examined mass incarceration affects stratification remarkably little known shapes educational disparitiesanalyzing fragile families study rich paternal incarceration data ask whether black white children fathers incarcerated less prepared school cognitively noncognitively result whether racial gendered disparities incarceration help explain persistence similar gaps educational outcomes trajectoriesusing variety estimation strategies show experiencing paternal incarceration age five associated lower noncognitive school readinesswhile main effect incarceration vary race boys incarcerated fathers substantially worse noncognitive skills school entry impacting likelihood special education placement age ninemass incarceration facilitates intergenerational transmission male behavioral disadvantage higher exposure black children incarceration also plays role explaining persistently low achievement black boys