Auer, Daniel; Slotwinski, Michaela; Ahrens, Achim; … - 2024
Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking … coincide with cantons' autonomy in setting social assistance rates. Linking time-varying cantonal benefit rates between 2009 … and 2016 to individual-level administrative data, we find that higher social assistance reduces criminal charges …