TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abramitzky, Ran
AU  -  Boustan, Leah
AU  -  Jacome, Elisa
AU  -  Perez, Santiago
AU  -  Torres, Juan David
TI  - Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870-2020
SN  - 2640-205X
PB  - American Economic Review: Insights
KW  -  Economic History
KW  -  Economics of Minorities
KW  -  Indigenous Peoples
KW  -  International Relations
KW  -  Labor and Consumers
KW  - Non-Labor Discrimination
N2  - 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,
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20230459
ER  -