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Title: Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. We provide evidence on the effects of refugee resettlement on crime, leveraging a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by the president in January 2017 halted refugee resettlement. We find that, despite a 65.6% drop in refugee resettlement, there is no discernible e↵ect on county-level crime rates. These null e↵ects are consistent across all types of crime. Overall, the results suggest that crime rates would have been similar had refugee arrivals continued at previous levels.

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Authors: Masterson, Daniel; Yasenov , Vasil, I

Series Title: IPL Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 18-03

Institution: Stanford University

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Publisher Location: Los Angelos, CA

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Migration and Immigration, Other

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