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

Yinjunjie (Jacquelyn Zhang, Marco Palma () and Zhicheng Xu

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 147, issue C, 68-71

Abstract: 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 property crime rates.

Keywords: Anti-illegal immigrant law; Alabama; Crime; Synthetic control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 K37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.08.026

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