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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Jul 1, 2014
Carlo Alberto Notebooks, 2010
Social Science Research Network, 2014
Page 1. Organized Crime Networks: Theory and Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret... more Page 1. Organized Crime Networks: Theory and Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret Files on American Mafia preliminary version, please do not circulate ∗ Giovanni Mastrobuoni June 2011 ∗I would like ...
ABSTRACT Concerns about the effect of immigration on crime are widespread. Tighter quotas on lega... more ABSTRACT Concerns about the effect of immigration on crime are widespread. Tighter quotas on legal migration can increase the number of illegal immigrants and prevent access to legitimate earnings opportunities, which in turn lowers the opportunity cost of crime. The decision about whether to reside legally or illegally in the destination country may respond to several (possibly unobserved) individual characteristics that are also correlated with criminal behavior. Additionally, the size of the illegal immigrant population is not reported in official statistics, so their crime rate remains also unobserved. This research will address these issues by using exogenous variation in legal status provided by the last round of the European Union (EU) enlargement and detailed longitudinal information on a sample of undocumented immigrants in Italy.
Italian economic journal, Mar 2, 2020
Social Science Research Network, Jul 21, 2011
Social Science Research Network, 2019
Social Science Research Network, 2010
The Economic Journal, Jun 12, 2018
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2021
Does Immigration Increase Crime?, 2019
Immigration is a contentious issue in most destination countries. From a purely economic perspect... more Immigration is a contentious issue in most destination countries. From a purely economic perspective, the removal of barriers to labour mobility would allow for the efficient allocation of productive factors at the global level. At the same time, its distributional consequences may undermine the political support for the free movement of people across countries. Most importantly, natives in destination countries may oppose immigration on grounds other than just labour market competition.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with... more We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with time served in an open-cell one. We deal with the endogenous assignment of inmates to different prison regimes using variation that is driven by nearby prisons’ overcrowding. Switching regimes for a year reduces recidivism by around 6 percentage points. The effects are largest for inmates with low levels of education and are weak for violent and hardened criminals. (JEL K14, K42)
We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargem... more We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargement to estimate its effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by (i) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants from the "new" and "candidate" member countries; and (ii) using arrest data on foreign detainees released upon a mass clemency that occurred in Italy in August 2006. The timing of the two events allows us to setup a difference-in-differences strategy. Legal status leads to a 50 percent reduction in recidivism, and explains one-half to two-thirds of the observed differences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. (JEL F22, K42, C41)
Does Immigration Increase Crime?, 2019
In this chapter, we examine the relationship between immigration and crime in Italy, focusing in ... more In this chapter, we examine the relationship between immigration and crime in Italy, focusing in particular on the importance of legal status for the propensity of immigrants to engage in crime. In Section 2.1, we briefly describe the characteristics of the immigrant population in Italy and the evolution of Italian migration policy. Section 2.2 discusses the evidence on immigrants’ involvement in crime in Italy.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Jul 1, 2014
Carlo Alberto Notebooks, 2010
Social Science Research Network, 2014
Page 1. Organized Crime Networks: Theory and Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret... more Page 1. Organized Crime Networks: Theory and Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret Files on American Mafia preliminary version, please do not circulate ∗ Giovanni Mastrobuoni June 2011 ∗I would like ...
ABSTRACT Concerns about the effect of immigration on crime are widespread. Tighter quotas on lega... more ABSTRACT Concerns about the effect of immigration on crime are widespread. Tighter quotas on legal migration can increase the number of illegal immigrants and prevent access to legitimate earnings opportunities, which in turn lowers the opportunity cost of crime. The decision about whether to reside legally or illegally in the destination country may respond to several (possibly unobserved) individual characteristics that are also correlated with criminal behavior. Additionally, the size of the illegal immigrant population is not reported in official statistics, so their crime rate remains also unobserved. This research will address these issues by using exogenous variation in legal status provided by the last round of the European Union (EU) enlargement and detailed longitudinal information on a sample of undocumented immigrants in Italy.
Italian economic journal, Mar 2, 2020
Social Science Research Network, Jul 21, 2011
Social Science Research Network, 2019
Social Science Research Network, 2010
The Economic Journal, Jun 12, 2018
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2021
Does Immigration Increase Crime?, 2019
Immigration is a contentious issue in most destination countries. From a purely economic perspect... more Immigration is a contentious issue in most destination countries. From a purely economic perspective, the removal of barriers to labour mobility would allow for the efficient allocation of productive factors at the global level. At the same time, its distributional consequences may undermine the political support for the free movement of people across countries. Most importantly, natives in destination countries may oppose immigration on grounds other than just labour market competition.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with... more We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with time served in an open-cell one. We deal with the endogenous assignment of inmates to different prison regimes using variation that is driven by nearby prisons’ overcrowding. Switching regimes for a year reduces recidivism by around 6 percentage points. The effects are largest for inmates with low levels of education and are weak for violent and hardened criminals. (JEL K14, K42)
We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargem... more We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargement to estimate its effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by (i) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants from the "new" and "candidate" member countries; and (ii) using arrest data on foreign detainees released upon a mass clemency that occurred in Italy in August 2006. The timing of the two events allows us to setup a difference-in-differences strategy. Legal status leads to a 50 percent reduction in recidivism, and explains one-half to two-thirds of the observed differences in crime rates between legal and illegal immigrants. (JEL F22, K42, C41)
Does Immigration Increase Crime?, 2019
In this chapter, we examine the relationship between immigration and crime in Italy, focusing in ... more In this chapter, we examine the relationship between immigration and crime in Italy, focusing in particular on the importance of legal status for the propensity of immigrants to engage in crime. In Section 2.1, we briefly describe the characteristics of the immigrant population in Italy and the evolution of Italian migration policy. Section 2.2 discusses the evidence on immigrants’ involvement in crime in Italy.