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1.	Butcher, Kristin F. Piehl, Anne Morrison
1.	Cross-City Evidence on the Relationship between Immigration and Crime Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 17,3 (Summer 1998): 457-493. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291520-6688%28199822%2917:3%3C457::AID-PAM4%3E3.0.CO;2-F/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Crime; Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Illegal Activities; Immigrants; Migration Patterns Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Public concerns about the costs of immigration and crime are high, and sometimes overlapping. This article investigates the relationship between immigration into a metropolitan area and that area's crime rate during the 1980s. Using data from the Uniform Crime Reports and the Current Population Surveys, we find, in the cross section, that cities with high crime rates tend to have large numbers of immigrants. However, controlling for the demographic characteristics of the cities, immigrants appear to have no effect on crime rates. In explaining changes in a city's crime rate over time, the flow of immigrants again has no effect, whether or not we control for other city-level characteristics. In a secondary analysis of individual data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NOSY) (sic), we find that youth born abroad are statistically significantly less likely than native-born youth to be criminally active.
	Bibliography Citation Butcher, Kristin F. and Anne Morrison Piehl. "Cross-City Evidence on the Relationship between Immigration and Crime." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 17,3 (Summer 1998): 457-493.

2.	Butcher, Kristin F. Piehl, Anne Morrison
2.	Cross-City Evidence on the Relationship Between Immigration and Crime Faculty Research Working Paper Series No. R94-26, John F. Kennedy School of Government, HarvardUniversity, September 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: John F. Kennedy School of Government Keyword(s): Crime; Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Economics, Demographic; Economics, Regional; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Ethnic Studies; Illegal Activities; Immigrants; Modeling; Urbanization/Urban Living Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Public concerns about the costs of immigration and crime are high, and sometimes overlapping. This paper investigates the relationship between immigration into a metropolitan area and that area's crime rate over the 1980's. Using data from the Uniform Crime Reports and the Current Population Surveys, we find, in the cross- section, that cities with high crime rates tend to have large numbers of immigrants. However, controlling for the demographic (racial and ethnic) characteristics of the cities, recent immigrants appear to have no effect on crime rates. Stated differently, crime rates have large city-specific components. When we try to explain changes in the crime rate in a city over time, recent immigration again has no effect. In a secondary analysis of individual data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that youth born abroad are statistically significantly less likely to be criminally active, based on a variety of measures. This record is part of the Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE) Database, copyright (c) 1995 Cambridge University Press.
	Bibliography Citation Butcher, Kristin F. and Anne Morrison Piehl. "Cross-City Evidence on the Relationship Between Immigration and Crime." Faculty Research Working Paper Series No. R94-26, John F. Kennedy School of Government, HarvardUniversity, September 1994.

3.	Piehl, Anne Morrison
3.	Economic Issues in Crime Policy Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Demography; Economics, Demographic; Incarceration/Jail; Labor Economics; Residence; Simultaneity From 1980 to 1993, the number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 200%. Throughout this expansion, the poorly-educated continued to be overrepresented among the nation's prisoners. At the same time, public concern about crime has also increased. Perhaps because immigrants share many demographic characteristics with criminals, public concern about immigration is often coupled with concern about crime. This dissertation empirically examines these issues central to sensible policy debate. Chapter one uses a unique micro-level data set of Wisconsin inmates to show that the completion of adult basic and high school education programs while in prison is significantly associated with lower recidivism. To correct for possible positive selection bias in these estimates, a variety of specifications are proposed and estimated. The results give no indication of significant selection bias. Chapter two looks directly at schooling and criminal justice outcomes by decomposing the relationship between education and incarceration into two subsidiary relationships: education and committing crime and education and conviction (conditional upon committing crime). Using Boston Youth Survey data on young males from low income neighborhoods, I find that additional years of schooling are associated with lower probabilities of both committing crime and of conviction. In a simultaneous model, the negative relationship between education and criminality remains statistically significant. Chapter three, written jointly with Kristin Butcher, investigates the relationship between immigration into a metropolitan area and that area's crime rate over the 1980's. Using data from the Uniform Crime Reports and the Current Population Surveys, we find, in the cross-section, that cities with high crime rates tend to have large numbers of immigrants. However, controlling for the demographic characteristics of the cities, recent immigrants appear to have no effect on crime rates. When we try to explain changes in the crime rate in a city over time, recent immigration again has no effect. In a secondary analysis of individual data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that youth born abroad are statistically significantly less likely to be criminally active, based on a variety of measures. Implications of the empirical results for public policy are discussed throughout the dissertation.
	Bibliography Citation Piehl, Anne Morrison. Economic Issues in Crime Policy. Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1994.

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