refugees

From 1922 to 1923, over 1.2 million Greek Orthodox migrated from Anatolia to Greece, raising its population by 20%. How did the human capital decisions of refugees differ from natives, and how do they continue to impact the Greek economy today?

As the global refugee crisis escalates, there is a growing need for evidence on refugee housing policy. Evidence from Jordan suggests that housing subsidies for Syrian refugees had limited benefits for refugee well-being while worsening social cohesi...

An adaptive field experiment aiming to integrate Syrian refugees into urban labour markets in Jordan sheds light on the effectiveness of different policies, while targeting the welfare of experimental participants.

An online, low-cost, scalable intervention that provided information and appealed to participants’ emotions improved prosociality behaviours and attitudes toward forced migrants from Venezuela

Heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian-born students led to improved scores in their new Turkish schools

A low-cost play-based programme for refugee mothers and their children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh was remarkably effective at improving mental health and wellbeing

Policy changes that raise aggregate welfare, but whose benefits are unevenly distributed, are often politically unfeasible. Politicians may recognise the overall gains from refugee integration, for example, but block visas or permits due to local peo...

We find no evidence that Syrian refugees in Jordan affected educational outcomes for Jordanians