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 Unpublished manuscript.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.