Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior

Matthew Freedman; Emily Owens; Sarah Bohn (2018) · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-16", tranche="tranche150")

Matthew Freedman; Emily Owens; Sarah Bohn (2018). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Table 2.

Template assessment

The source Table 2 regression is a triple difference using immigration exposure and policy-phase interactions. A binary two-way adoption comparison would omit the third difference and alter the estimand.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.