to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but … legalizing the status of immigrants has beneficial effects on crime rates. Crucially, the evidence points to substantial …

often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but … legalizing the status of immigrants has beneficial effects on crime rates. Crucially, the evidence points to substantial …

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …

and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …

leaving age. This paper studies how crime reductions occurred in a sequence of state-level dropout age reforms enacted between … 1980 and 2010 in the United States. These reforms changed the shape of crime-age profiles, reflecting both a temporary … incapacitation effect and a more sustained, longer run crime reducing effect. In contrast to the previous research looking at earlier …

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …

and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …