, increase crime. …

Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the birth rate halved in East Germany. Despite their small sizes, the … cohorts conceived during this period of socio-economic turmoil were, as they grew up in reunified Germany, markedly more …

1989, the number of births halved in East Germany. These cohorts became markedly more likely to be arrested as they grew up … in reunified Germany. This is observed for both genders and all offence types. We highlight risk attitude as an important …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …

examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …

Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee …This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in … populations and their type of accommodation, I find that an increase in the population share of refugees increases the vote share …

This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically …, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects … success of right-wing parties. For identification, I exploit quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across …

civil wars and natural catastrophes that generate rapid and unexpected flows of refugees into a country unrelated to their …