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Ethan Lewis
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Economics Professor, Dartmouth College ethang.host.dartmouth.edu

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Dr. Maya @drdrmaya.bsky.social · Jan 31
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Ethan Lewis @ethan-lewis.bsky.social · Feb 2
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Immigration and Crime: An International Perspective
(Winter 2024) - The association between immigration and crime has long been a subject of debate, and only recently have we encountered systematic empirical evidence on this issue. Data shows that immi...
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Ethan Lewis @ethan-lewis.bsky.social · Feb 2
3. What does lower crime rates? Granting legal status to unauthorized immigrants, e.g., www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151041
Effects of Immigrant Legalization on Crime
(May 2015) - I examine the effects that the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized almost 3 million immigrants, had on crime in the United States. I exploit the IRCA's quasi-r...
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Ethan Lewis @ethan-lewis.bsky.social · Feb 2
2. Perhaps partly as a result, deportations do not lower crime rates, e.g., www.cato.org/publications/research-briefs-economic-policy/immigrants-deportations-local-crime-police
Immigrants' Deportations, Local Crime, and Police Effectiveness
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Ethan Lewis @ethan-lewis.bsky.social · Feb 2
Three pieces of information about immigration and crime are not widely appreciated:
1. Immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. born, e.g., www.aeaweb.org/research/chart/incarceration-immigrants-us-born
The immigration–crime link
Nearly two centuries of data show that immigrants commit fewer crimes than US-born citizens.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jan 31
A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
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Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
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