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Hate is too great a burden to bear: hate crimes and the mental health of refugees

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Graeber, Daniel (Author), Schikora, Felicitas (Author)
Other Authors: Schikora, Felicitas [Author]
Type of Resource: E-Book
Language: English
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Series: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research ; 1130 (2021)
Subjects:
Mental health
hate crime
migration
refugees
human capital
Source: Verbunddaten SWB
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Summary: Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity design in time to estimate the effect of interest. Our results indicate that hate crime has a substantial negative effect on several mental health indicators, including the Mental Component Summary score and the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 score. The effects are stronger for refugees with closer geographic proximity to the focal hate crime and refugees with low country-specific human capital. While the estimated effect is only transitory, we argue that negative mental health shocks during the critical period after arrival have important long-term consequences.
Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 56 Seiten); Illustrationen