Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7 (2015) 2, pp. 175-206
We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargement to estimate its effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by (i) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants from the "new" and "candidate" member countries; and...