Misidentifying the Effects of Parental Incarceration? A Comment on Johnson and Easterling (2012)

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 252-258

  Wildeman, Christopher ^a   Wakefield, Sara ^b   Turney, Kristin ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child well being; Mass imprisonment; Parental incarceration; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872572745     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01018.x     Document Type: Article

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