@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14087,
            	author={Ajzenman, Nicolas and Dominguez-Rivera, Patricio and Undurraga, Raimundo},
            	title={Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions},
            	year={2021},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14087},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14087},
	abstract={This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and crime perceptions in Chile, where the foreign-born population more than doubled in the last decade. By using individual-level victimization data, we document null effects of immigration on crime but positive and significant effects on crime-related concerns, which in turn triggered preventive behavioral responses, such as investing in home-security. Our results are robust across a two-way fixed effects model and an IV strategy based on a shift-share instrument that exploits immigration inflows towards destination countries other than Chile. On mechanisms, we examine data on crime-related news on TV and in newspapers, and find a disproportionate coverage of immigrant-perpetrated homicides as well as a larger effect of immigration on crime perceptions in municipalities with a stronger media presence. These effects might explain the widening gap between actual crime trends and public perceptions of crime.},
	keywords={crime;immigration;crime perception;media;crime beliefs},
            }