This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and perceptions in Chile, where foreign-born population tripled less than ten years. We document null but positive significant crime-related concerns preventive behavioral responses, such as investing home security. explore several channels provide suggestive evidence related to low versus high-education immigrants, ethnic-related intergroup threats, role local media.

Subjective well-being may not improve in step with increases material due to hedonic adaptation, a psychological process that attenuates the long-term emotional impact of favorable or unfavorable change circumstances. As result, people's degree happiness eventually returns stable reference level. We use multicountry field experiment examine on subjective measures provision improved housing extremely poor populations order test whether they exhibit adaptation when their basic needs are met....

This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and perceptions in Chile, where foreign-born population tripled less than ten years. We document null but positive significant crime-related concerns preventive behavioral responses, such as investing home security. explore several channels provide suggestive evidence related to low- versus high-education immigrants, ethnicity-related intergroup threats, role local media. (JEL D83, D91, J15, K42, L82, O15, O17)

We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who then submitted them a representative sample of loan-officers from Chilean banks.We find that by women are 18.3% less likely be approved, with most the gender effect coming gender-biased officers, particularly males.We further informed some officers about official statistics indicating have higher repayment rates than men in treatment-group discriminated more against relative...

Exposure to immigrants often triggers sentiments of hostility and backlash among native-born populations. Among the main concerns identified by surveys, labor market conditions typically rank at top. We combine a two-way fixed effects model with Bartik-type 2SLS causally estimate immigration on outcomes in Chile, where foreign-born population almost tripled five years. While did not systematically affect employment levels, it cause an increase unemployment-related concerns. Our results...

We examine the effect of performance monitoring in public procurement through lens organizational culture a principal-agent model where manager (principal) and buyers (agents) may have different beliefs about how much government values efficiency. show that information not only increases efficiency but is greater when buyer's belief stronger than manager's belief. leverage new e-procurement system Chile to test these ideas by randomizing monthly reports on purchasing further whether...

We use a multi-country field experiment that combines random variation at the treatment level with exogenous in length of exposure to test effect slumhousing intervention on evolution housing aspirations untreated co-resident neighbors over time.Initially after treatment, we observe huge control-treatment gap favor treated units.As result, non-treated households' upgrade their dwelling are significantly higher compared group, suggesting they aspire "keep-up" Joneses', as standard models peer...

Download This Paper Open PDF in Browser Add to My Library Share: Permalink Using these links will ensure access this page indefinitely Copy URL Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions 57 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2021 See all articles by Nicolas AjzenmanNicolas AjzenmanGetulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Sao Paulo School of EconomicsPatricio Dominguez-RiveraInter-American Development BankRaimundo UndurragaNew York University (NYU) Abstract paper studies the effects immigration on crime...

We use a multi-country field experiment to test the effect of slum-housing intervention on housing aspirations non-beneficiary neighbors. Initially after treatment, nontreated households’ upgrade their dwelling are significantly higher compared treatment group, suggesting that they aspire “keep-up” with Joneses’. No effects found, however, investments. Eight months later, aspirational disappears. Estimates based structural model aspiration adaptation show decay rate is 38% per month. Our evidence...

This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and perceptions in Chile, where foreign-born population tripled less than ten years. We document null but positive significant crime-related concerns preventive behavioral responses, such as investing home security. explore several channels provide suggestive evidence related to low versus high-education immigrants, ethnic-related intergroup threats, role local media.

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has living conditions of extremely poor. In particular, we study impact providing better houses in situ to dwellers El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate a housing project run by NGO TECHO which basic pre-fabricated members poor population groups Latin America. The main objective program is improve household well-being. Our findings show have positive effect overall general...