TY  - UNPD
A1  - Graeber, Daniel
A1  - Schikora, Felicitas
T1  - Hate is too great a burden to bear
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - 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 in time design 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. Keywords: Mental health, hate crime, migration, refugees, human capital.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 31 
KW  - mental health
KW  - hate crime
KW  - migration
KW  - refugees
KW  - human capital
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50797
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-507972
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 31
ER  -