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IMMIGRATION AND CRIME IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
Carolyn Moehling Anne Morrison Piehl
Working Paper 13576 http://www.nber.org/papers/w13576
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 November 2007
The authors thank Rutgers University’s Research Council for financial support of this project. We also thank the participants of the NBER Summer Institute, Northwestern University Economic History Workshop, the Western Economic Association annual meeting, and the University of Colorado Economics Seminar for their helpful comments and suggestions. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.