Debt and the Response to Household Income Shocks: Validation and Application of Linked Financial Account Data
In: Journal of political economy, Band 126, Heft 4, S. 1504-1557
ISSN: 1537-534X
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 126, Heft 4, S. 1504-1557
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: American economic review, Band 105, Heft 5, S. 210-213
ISSN: 1944-7981
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 3-5 percent, primarily due to decline in property crimes, equivalent to 120,000-180,000 fewer violent and property crimes committed each year due to legalization. I calibrate a labor market model of crime, finding that much of the drop in crime can be explained by greater labor market opportunities among applicants.
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In: Journal of political economy macroeconomics, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 447-505
ISSN: 2832-9341
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