题目：Clicking on Heaven’s Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime

作者：Paolo Pinotti

文献出处：American Economic Review 2017, 107(1): 138–168

主讲人：倪霓博士

时间：2019年10月31日14：00-16：00

地点：浙江财经大学我院1号楼302室

主办单位：浙江财经大学现代公共经济学研究中心

内容摘要：We estimate the effect of immigrant legalization on the crime rateof immigrants in Italy by exploiting an ideal regression discontinuitydesign: fixed quotas of residence permits are available eachyear, applications must be submitted electronically on specific“clickdays,”and are processed on a first come, first served basis until theavailable quotas are exhausted. Matching data on applications withindividual-level criminal records, we show that legalization reducesthe crime rate of legalized immigrants by 0.6 percentage points on average, on a baseline crime rate of 1.1 percent.

意大利有一个非常有趣的移民合法政策——每年的“点击日”。当天，申请者提交电子申请，随后，他们的申请按照先到先得的基础进行受理，直到合法身份的配额数量用尽为止。基于此，这篇文章设计了一套非常规范的RDD，系统考察了移民合法化对犯罪率的影响以及对应的作用机制。