Effects of the Alabama HB 56 Immigration Law on Crime: A Synthetic Control Approach
| dc.creator | Zhang, Yinjuejie | |
| dc.creator | Palma, Marco | |
| dc.creator | Xu, Zhicheng | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:16:20Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T10:02:24Z | |
| dc.description | The act of Alabama HB 56, passed in 2011 is considered to be the strictest anti-illegal immigration bill in the United States. This paper evaluates the impact of this policy on crime, by using the synthetic control method to create a counterfactual Alabama. The results provide suggestive evidence of heterogeneous causal effects of Alabama HB 56 on crime. Compared to the synthetic group, the violent crime rate increased as a response to Alabama HB 56, while there was no significant change in property crime rate after the act. A placebo test was also performed to demonstrate the robustness of the results. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.229780 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/229780/files/alabama.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/229780 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/614849 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/229780 | |
| dc.title | Effects of the Alabama HB 56 Immigration Law on Crime: A Synthetic Control Approach | |
| dc.type | Text |