rampant violence in the region. Using a novel identification strategy, this paper provides the first econometric evidence for … exploits subnational variation in the exposure of migrant communities to exogenous conditions in the host country. Violence …-existing levels of violent crime. The cross-sectional evidence is backed by panel data analysis dating back to 1999. The annual inflow …

Existing literature on cross-national variation in violence has paid little attention to the transnational transmission … of crime. One such channel are the forced returns of migrants with a criminal record in their countries of temporary … residence. Responding to this research gap, we study the effect of US deportations of convicts on levels of violent crime in …