Unintended effects of the Alabama HB 56 immigration law on crime: A preliminary analysis
| Autor: | Yinjunjie Zhang, Zhicheng Phil Xu, Marco A. Palma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Counterfactual thinking
Economics and Econometrics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Criminology Violent crime 01 natural sciences Preliminary analysis 010104 statistics & probability Property crime Political science 0502 economics and business Development economics 050207 economics 0101 mathematics Immigration law Finance Control methods media_common |
| Zdroj: | Economics Letters. 147:68-71 |
| ISSN: | 0165-1765 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.08.026 |
| Popis: | The Alabama HB 56 act passed in 2011 is the strictest anti-illegal immigration bill in the United States. Using the synthetic control method to create a counterfactual Alabama, this paper provides suggestive evidence that Alabama HB 56 led to an increase in violent crime rates, but had no significant impact on property crime rates. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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