Does refugee inflow affect urban crime? Evidence from the U.S. Indochinese refugee resettlement.
We study the city‐level crime effects of immigration using a large migratory episode in U.S. cities: the resettlement of postwar Indochinese refugees in the 1970s–1980s. We examine the impact of these migratory inflows, where the destination of refugees was largely exogeneously determined, on the in...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 88; no. 3; pp. 951 - 991 |
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