authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …

relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …

This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both … first study to document a link between transit migration and crime. …

relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …

I examine the effects that the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized almost 3 million … immigrants, had on crime in the United States. I exploit the IRCA's quasi-random timing as well as geographic variation in the … intensity of treatment to isolate causal impacts. I find decreases in crime of 2%-6%, primarily due to decline in property …

We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities … move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … investigate whether the depenalization policy impacts the level and composition of crime, using administrative records on criminal …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …