Replication data for: Clicking on Heaven's Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime

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Project Citation:

Pinotti, Paolo. Replication data for: Clicking on Heaven’s Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113049V1

Project Description

Summary: We estimate the effect of immigrant legalization on the crime rate of immigrants in Italy by exploiting an ideal regression discontinuity design: fixed quotas of residence permits are available each year, applications must be submitted electronically on specific "click days," and are processed on a first come, first served basis until the available quotas are exhausted. Matching data on applications with individual-level criminal records, we show that legalization reduces the crime rate of legalized immigrants by 0.6 percentage points on average, on a baseline crime rate of 1.1 percent.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
      K37 Immigration Law
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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