Economics Professor Ozkan Eren has received a $244,721 grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The two-year grant will be used to study the long-term effects of juvenile incarceration and its spillover effects on family members.

Eren’s research will involve two components. In the first, he will investigate the relationships among juvenile incarceration, educational outcomes, adult criminal involvement, and labor market outcomes. In the second, his study will focus on fertility, adult health, and health care utilization and birth outcomes.

In his grant application, Eren pointed to the lack of scholarship concerning juvenile incarceration’s impacts. He alluded to an incarceration rate of 110 per 100,000 youth aged 10 to 17.

The study will be conducted in South Carolina and will include more than 20,000 juvenile case files from 2002-2012. “South Carolina is fairly representative of the U.S. overall in terms of the prevalence of juvenile arrests and prosecutions and thus the results may generalize nationwide,” Eren said.

Orgul Ozturk from the University of South Carolina and Randi Hjalmarsson from the University of Gothenburg will join Eren — who is the principal investigator — on executing the research.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation, also operating as Arnold Ventures, was founded in 2008 by Laura and John Arnold with the goal of improving the lives of all Americans through policy solutions “that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice,” according to the foundation’s website.