in Turkey and assess their impact on regional crime rates. Starting from simple difference-in-difference method, I employ … immigrants with dissimilar social capital backgrounds on the host country’s crime. To do this I explore the Syrian refugee influx … a more machine learning approach for causal inference to assess the impact. I find no impact on violent crime rate but …

Research that investigate the extent of labor market prospects on crime rates focus on conditions in a region and crime … labor market in a region may attract nonresidents, either professional criminals who travel only to commit crime or … individuals who migrate hoping to find a job and failing to do so may inclined to commit crime. Indeed, using regional data from …