Bianchi, Milo; Buonanno, Paolo; Pinotti, Paolo - HAL - 2012
We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables based on … other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the overall …