these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and …

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … increase in the number of refugees leads to more crime. We estimate that the influx of refugees between 2012 and 2016 generated … crime. We also highlight the pitfalls of employing incorrect empirical procedures and using poor proxies of criminal …

explores the impact of state E-Verify laws on crime. Using agency-by-month data from the 2004 to 2015 National Incident Based …-skilled natives of Hispanic descent, and outmigration of younger Hispanics are important channels. We find no evidence that crime was … displaced to nearby U.S. jurisdictions without E-Verify or that violent crime was impacted by E-Verify mandates. Moreover …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …