• DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104728
Corpus ID: 211465409

Do immigrants increase crime? Spatial analysis in a middle-income country

@article{Leiva2020DoII,
  title={Do immigrants increase crime? Spatial analysis in a middle-income country},
  author={Mauricio Leiva and Felipe V{\'a}squez-Lav{\'i}n and R. Oliva},
  journal={World Development},
  year={2020},
  volume={126},
  pages={104728}
}

• Mauricio Leiva, Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, R. Oliva
• Published 2020
• Geography
• World Development

Abstract The last decade has seen a significant global increase in immigration. This large growth has caused an increasing opposition to immigration in local populations in many parts of the world, partly because of a commonly held belief that immigration increases crime. Using data from Chile, spanning 10 years, from 2005 to 2015, we analyze the relationship between immigration and crime through a dynamic Spatial Durbin Model (SDM), which accounts for the possible bias for omitted variables… Expand

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