@techreport{GraeberSchikora2021,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Graeber, Daniel and Schikora, Felicitas},
  title     = {Hate is too great a burden to bear},
  series = {CEPA Discussion Papers},
  journal   = {CEPA Discussion Papers},
  number    = {31},
  issn      = {2628-653X},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-50797},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-507972},
  pages     = {53},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}