【摘要】Using US county homicide mortality data and a spatial Durbin panel regression model which accounts for the spatial clustering of homicide deaths and unobserved heteroge-neity between counties, this study examines the impact of changes in foreign born populationshare on changes in county homicide rates. Increases in the foreign born population share are associated with reductions in the homicide rate, a process observed most clearly in the South region of the US. This reduction is largely the result of spillover, the indirect effect of growth inthe immigrant population in one county on homicide rates in other counties.

【关键词】Population;criminology;immigration;spatial modelling;panel data

【文献来源】Matt Ruther.Papers in Regional Studies.2014（4）