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July 1, 2025
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Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile

Publicated to: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS. 43 (3): 725-762 - 2025-07-01, DOI: 10.1086/730119

Authors:

Barrios-Fernandez, Andres; Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge
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Affiliations

Max Plank Inst Demog Res, Rostock, Germany - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Los Andes, Los Andes, Colombia - Author
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Abstract

This paper uses administrative data from Chile to provide causal evidence that the local institutions of the neighborhood in which inmates live after prison impact recidivism. Indeed, the opening of an evangelical church nearby reduces 12-month reincarceration rates among property crime offenders by 11 percentage points (18%). Similarly, the opening of nongovernmental organizations helping their beneficiaries to improve their earnings potential or overcome alcohol and drug abuse problems reduce 12-month reincarceration rates by 11 and 10 percentage points, respectively. These results suggest that giving recently released inmates access to local support networks could play an important role in reducing recidivism.
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Keywords

Childhood exposureCrimeImpactsLabor-marketsPrisoReligion

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 6/54, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Industrial Relations & Labor. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-11-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 3.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 3 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Chile; Colombia; Germany; Venezuela.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (GARCIA HOMBRADOS, JORGE).

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