It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly …-augmenting effect of an immigration shock is a significant secondary adjustment process that must be considered when assessing the …

This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the …

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount.Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the … disappeared over time, we show that the theoretical predicted crime reduction is close to what is observed in the real world. We …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board …

, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues …We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and … after the 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act, which disproportionately legalized individuals of Hispanic origin …

, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a …

cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens …