Our paper describes crime effects attributable to the Mariel Boatlift, the 1980 Cuban refugee crisis that increased …-intervention crime patterns, we find strong evidence the phenomenon comparatively increased property crime and murder rates; we also … document weaker but suggestive relative growth in per capita violent crime linked with the influx of Cubans. Compositional …

This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and … opportunity cost of committing crime and become indeed more criminal than whites. Therefore beliefs are self-fulfilling. …

We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and …, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues …, crime victims of Hispanic origin in cities with a large proportion of illegal Hispanics become considerably more likely to …

We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and …, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues …, crime victims of Hispanic origin in cities with a large proportion of illegal Hispanics become considerably more likely to …