authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative …-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a higher detection probability and higher sanctions. In addition … theories of crime, namely strain theory. …

This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … union membership, correlate to bureaucratic decisions made at every stage of immigration enforcement. …

suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …