Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870-2020
- American Economic Review: Insights 2024
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We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870-2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born,
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Economic History Economics of Minorities Indigenous Peoples International Relations Labor and Consumers Non-Labor Discrimination