TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Huang, Yue
AU  - Kvasnicka, Michael
        TI  - Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany
        PY  - 2019/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12469
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12469
        AB  - In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives would rise. Using novel county-level data, we study this question empirically in first-difference and 2SLS regressions. Our results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of victimization in crimes with refugee suspects. Our findings are of great policy and public interest, and also of material relevance for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never actual crimes by foreigners against natives. We show that this shortcoming can lead to biased inference. 
        KW  - immigration
KW  - refugees
KW  - crimes
KW  - crimes against natives
        ER  -