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Graduate Student Presentations: Parental Incarceration and Child Safety & Anti-Trans Legislation and Mental Health
March 27 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm EDT
FreeParental Incarceration and Child Safety: Evidence from Wisconsin
Garrett Baker, Graduate Student, Joint program in Public Policy and Sociology
Duke University
Decades after the rise of mass incarceration, a large literature has grown to debate the tradeoffs associated with this unparalleled social and policy experiment. While a significant body of research documents the consequences of parental incarceration in particular, it primarily examines outcomes related to children’s behavior, self-reported health, and educational attainment, but due to data limitations has not considered a perhaps more foundational aspect: children’s physical safety. In this paper, we leverage a unique statewide linkage of court and medical records from Wisconsin to provide the first evidence regarding parental incarceration and children’s safety. These data give us an unparalleled opportunity to study not only the descriptive texture and occurrence of parental criminal justice involvement and children’s use of the emergency room (ER), but also their timing at a monthly level. We leverage these panel data in an event study framework and analyze whether parental criminal justice involvement impacts child safety and ER utilization among very young children, thus enabling us to consider how the era of mass incarceration has impacted society’s most vulnerable.
Anti-Trans Legislation and Mental Health: Spillover Effects
AP Pittman, Graduate Student, Sociology, Duke University
This paper aims to better understand the current situation regarding the recent flood of anti-trans laws and its impact on population mental health. Anti-trans laws are a marker of a larger pro-natalist, gender-essentialist movement in state (and national) politics. They directly target a very small proportion of the population, but their effects are more expansive. While these laws primarily and directly expose trans and gender non-conforming individuals to stress, they may also harm cisgender queer people and cisgender women. I will use Household Pulse Survey and BRFSS data to estimate the impact of the passage of anti-trans laws on trans/gender non-conforming, cisgender queer, and cisgender female residents of affected states.
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