Replication data for: The Criminal Justice Response to Policy Interventions: Evidence from Immigration Reform

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sarah Bohn; Matthew Freedman; Emily Owens

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Project Citation:

Bohn, Sarah, Freedman, Matthew, and Owens, Emily. Replication data for: The Criminal Justice Response to Policy Interventions: Evidence from Immigration Reform. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113381V1

Project Description

Summary: Changes in the treatment of individuals by the criminal justice system following a policy intervention may bias estimates of the effects of the intervention on underlying criminal activity. We explore the importance of such changes in the context of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Using administrative data from San Antonio, Texas, we examine variation across neighborhoods and ethnicities in police arrests and in the rate at which those arrests are prosecuted. We find that changes in police behavior around IRCA confound estimates of the effects of the policy and its restrictions on employment on criminal activity.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Discrimination; IRCA; Crime; Immigration; Policing; Law Enforcement; Police; Criminal Justice

JEL Classification:
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

Geographic Coverage: Bexar County, Texas, USA

Time Period(s): 7/1986 – 3/1991

Universe: All felony and misdemeanor arrests as well as prosecutorial acceptance rates by census block group and month in Bexar County, Texas, USA.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; census/enumeration data

Methodology

Data Source: Bexar County Department of Information Technology, Census Bureau

Unit(s) of Observation: Census Block Group by Month,

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