Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

The dataset contains information about the date and location of hear- ing, the judge responsible for the case, whether or not an applicant had legal representation, the nationality of the applicant, whether or not the application was in response to deportation proceedings. [...] Applicant controls include detention status, application type (affirmative or defensive), and legal representation, while temperature is the mean temperature in the city of the hearing from 6am to 4pm on the day of the hearing. [...] 11 attacks.16 It may be surprising that the magnitude of the effect of the Madrid attacks on immigration judges is so similar to that of the Sept. [...] The results suggest two main things: (1) the estimated effect size for applicants from Muslim-majority countries is in the same ballpark across these different windows; and (2) the sample size issues mentioned in the previous section have a dramatic effect on the precision of the estimates for attack associated countries across different windows. [...] Additionally, these findings are of interest in contributing to the research enumerating the consequences of terrorism and in particular the legacy of Sept.