{"id":199505,"date":"2007-07-21T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/21\/this-is-how-you-apologize-if-you-are-mensch\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T03:06:00","slug":"this-is-how-you-apologize-if-you-are-mensch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/21\/this-is-how-you-apologize-if-you-are-mensch\/","title":{"rendered":"This is How You Apologize if You are  Mensch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Caplan offers an apology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2007\/07\/mea_culpa_how_i.html\">EconLog, Mea Culpa: How I Succumbed to Anti-Foreign Bias, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mea Culpa: How I Succumbed to Anti-Foreign Bias<br \/>Bryan Caplan<\/p>\n<p>A high fraction of immigrants are young, low-skilled, Hispanic males. Given these demographics, I long assumed that immigrants would have relatively high crime rates. While I kept this problem in perspective, I took it for granted that increased crime was a genuine drawback of immigration.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A fascinating NBER Working Paper (earlier, free version here) by Kristin Butcher and Anne Piehl shows that, despite their demographics, immigrants are drastically less criminal than native-born Americans. In fact, immigrants have one-fifth the incarceration rate of natives. Yes, natives are incarcerated at five times the rate of the foreign-born:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear, the error here is minor, as he is pro large scale immigration, he was arguing for this <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">in spite of<\/span> what he thought were crime issues, which is far more benign than what Lou Dobbs done.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to be closer to Dobbs than I am to Caplan, though for economic issues (I don&#8217;t believe that there are jobs Americans won&#8217;t do, just jobs they won&#8217;t do for pennies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Caplan offers an apology. EconLog, Mea Culpa: How I Succumbed to Anti-Foreign Bias, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty Mea Culpa: How I Succumbed to Anti-Foreign BiasBryan Caplan A high fraction of immigrants are young, low-skilled, Hispanic males. Given these demographics, I long assumed that immigrants would have relatively high crime rates. While &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1053,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-immigration","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}