and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …

Strong sentences are common "tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in … participating in crime may adjust. I use California's Three Strikes law to identify several effects of a large increase in the … combined with the high cost of violent crime relative to non-violent crime implies that Three Strikes may not be a cost …

Most estimates of the cost of crime focus on victims. Yet it is plausible that an even larger cost of crime occurs via … its indirect impact on the mental wellbeing of non-victims. To test how crime affects individuals' mental outcomes, we … exploit detailed panel data on mental wellbeing, allowing us to observe the relationship between changes in crime in a local …

Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus …