Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities

We thank seminar participants at UC Berkeley Haas, UC Berkeley Demography, UC Berkeley Law, University of Colorado Boulder, Stanford, UCSD, UCLA, UC Davis, University of British Columbia, UC Irvine, Pomona, Princeton, Harvard, University of Texas Austin, the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Junior Criminal Law Roundtable, NBER Summer Institute, Columbia, Northwestern, and NBER Law and Economics for many helpful comments and suggestions. Barbara Biasi, Adam Cox, Janet Currie, Manasi Deshpande, Will Dobbie, Mark Duggan, Amy Finkelstein, Josh Gottlieb, Hilary Hoynes, Kevin Johnson, Thomas Lemieux, Justin McCrary, Alison Morantz, Melanie Morten, Ted Miguel, Shayak Sarkar, Maya Rossin-Slater, Isaac Sorkin, Reed Walker, and Tara Watson provided early feedback that improved the work. Morgan Foy, Ashley Litwin, Regina Powers, Matthew Tarduno, and Anlu Xing provided excellent research assistance. We thank Sue Long of TRAC for assistance with data under our appointments as TRAC Fellows. The collection of PSID data used in this study was partly supported by the National Institutes of Health under grant numbers R01 HD069609 and R01 AG040213, and the National Science Foundation under award numbers SES 1157698 and 1623684. We thank the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Stanford Health Policy for funding. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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