Overview
Anne Morrison Piehl is Professor of Economics at Rutgers University and NBER Research Associate. Her research spans the economics of crime and criminal justice, immigration, and labor markets. She is co-author with Kristin Butcher of the leading study showing that immigrants have far lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans, and of earlier work on immigration and city-level crime rates.
Key Contributions / Features
- Immigrant incarceration rates (Butcher and Piehl 2007): Co-documented the immigrant incarceration puzzle and ruled out deportation as the primary mechanism; attributed the pattern to multidimensional positive selection in immigration and general deterrence effects. See Immigration and Crime.
- Role of deportation in immigrant incarceration (Butcher and Piehl 2000): Earlier companion paper showing that immigrants under deportation orders spent more time incarcerated per sentence than comparable natives due to INS processing backlogs.
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