English Abstract: Surveys and public opinion research show that people associate immigration with an increase in crime … analyze the effect of irregular immigration on crimes using a novel dataset on Venezuelan immigration in Colombia and … municipality level information on four types of crime. Fixed effects and instrumental variable estimations suggest that the …

This investigation is based in the model of crime of Becker-Ehrlich with explanatory variables that impact the crime … demographic variables that are related with the crime according to the literature and with variables that are generated by the … with negative sign in the violation crime. Finally, the population density affects the crimes of subversive actions and …

international trade and immigration. As these policies arise as the response of policy makers to individual’s preferences; this …