Rey, Ramón; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2024 - Electronically published: 16.1.2024
This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … of the VenezuelaColombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about … propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both …