Backstory: Ellora Derenoncourt on Historical Incarceration Penalty in the US

Ellora Derenoncourt talks with Santiago about her research on the impact of past incarceration status on labor market outcomes in the US. Ellora shares how her interest in inequality and the ladder of opportunities led her to focus on the criminal justice system as an underlying mechanism.

Ellora also shared her "one-stop shop" to look for archival data: hathitrust.org. It's a consortium of libraries that recollects and digitizes data and great place to start looking for new data.

Ellora is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton. The coauthors of the project are Desmond Ang (Harvard), Kyle Hancock (Princeton), and Jing Wu (Princeton).