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112 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Benefits</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Taxpayers</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>Increases</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Students</strong>’ Educational Atta<strong>in</strong>ment<br />

not <strong>in</strong>clude <strong>in</strong>carcerated persons, we calculate the probability of <strong>in</strong>carceration as the<br />

number of prisoners <strong>in</strong> each population category divided by the sum of the general<br />

population and the number of prisoners for that category. Like prisons, per-person jail<br />

spend<strong>in</strong>g computed <strong>from</strong> the Sourcebook of Crim<strong>in</strong>al Justice, 2003 (Pas<strong>to</strong>re and Maguire,<br />

2007), shown <strong>in</strong> Table 5.2, constitutes the second part of the two-part model.<br />

As <strong>in</strong>carceration-probability estimations are not based on regressions, they consist<br />

of a sizeable matrix for prisons and jails each, with five dimensions (educational atta<strong>in</strong>ment,<br />

age, gender, race/ethnicity, and place of birth). Such output is not depicted here,<br />

but the data are available <strong>from</strong> the authors upon request.

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