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 …

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime … instruments for unskilled workers' earnings in crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology …-induced variations in unskilled workers' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on …