Unintended effects of the Alabama HB 56 immigration law on crime: A preliminary analysis

作者：Zhang, Yinjunjie; Palma, Marco A; Xu, Zhicheng Phil^*

来源：Economics Letters, 2016, 147: 68-71.

DOI：10.1016/j.econlet.2016.08.026

• Anti-illegal immigrant law
• Alabama
• Crime
• Synthetic control

The Alabama HB 56 act passed in 2011 is the strictest anti-illegal immigration bill in the United States. Using the synthetic control method to create a counterfactual Alabama, this paper provides suggestive evidence that Alabama HB 56 led to an increase in violent crime rates, but had no significant impact on propetty crime rates.

• 出版日期2016-10
• 单位河南大学