The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration
利用德国一家报纸2016年改变报道政策的机会，结合个人面板数据和大量犯罪报道，发现系统披露罪犯来源会提高本地人对自己群体犯罪的关注，反而降低对移民的担忧，打破移民与犯罪的隐性关联。
Abstract This paper analyses whether the systematic disclosure of criminals’ origins in the press affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. It takes advantage of the unilateral change in reporting policy announced by the German newspaper Sächsische Zeitung in July 2016. Combining individual-level panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2014 to 2018 with 402,819 crime-related articles in German newspapers and those newspapers’ market shares, we find that systematically mentioning the origins of criminals increases the relative salience of natives’ criminality and reduces natives’ concerns about immigration, breaking the implicit link between immigration and crime.