How can the regularization of approximately half a million migrant's impact crime reports in hosting areas? To identify … the effects of this large amnesty, we match confidential administrative data on the location of undocumented migrants with … department-monthly data from crime reports and compare crime outcomes in departments that were granted different average time …

undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an … amnesty program that granted such migrants a labor permit and access to social services. Our results suggest the amnesty …

This paper studies whether undocumented immigrants change their crime-reporting behavior after receiving a regular … of crimes by Venezuelan immigrants, not explained by an increase in crime overall. The results are particularly strong …

that the program did not change labor and crime outcomes for native Colombians, and most migrants remained in the informal …How does easing the economic integration of forced migrants affect native voting behaviors in the Global South? This … paper assesses how the regularization of half a million Venezuelan forced migrants affected the electoral choices of …

How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards … migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic … economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan migrants. We find that …

How are natives' attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more empathy towards migrants … economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan forced migrants. We find … that natives' attitudes towards migrants are substantially more negative in the treatment relative to the control group …

We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and …, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues …, crime victims of Hispanic origin in cities with a large proportion of illegal Hispanics become considerably more likely to …