Ethan Lewis
ethan-lewis.bsky.social
Ethan Lewis
@ethan-lewis.bsky.social
Economics Professor, Dartmouth College

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3. What does lower crime rates? Granting legal status to unauthorized immigrants, e.g., www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151041
Effects of Immigrant Legalization on Crime
(May 2015) - I examine the effects that the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized almost 3 million immigrants, had on crime in the United States. I exploit the IRCA's quasi-r...
www.aeaweb.org
February 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
2. Perhaps partly as a result, deportations do not lower crime rates, e.g., www.cato.org/publications/research-briefs-economic-policy/immigrants-deportations-local-crime-police
Immigrants' Deportations, Local Crime, and Police Effectiveness
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February 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM