The paper reviews 59 empirical studies that estimated the economic impact of forced
displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these studies …

Immigration is sometimes claimed to be a key contributor to economic growth. Few
academic studies, however, examine the direct link between immigration and growth. And …

Forced migration as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters may have
consequences different from those of voluntary migration. Recent work has highlighted the …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United
Kingdom, France, and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

We apply the synthetic control method to reexamine the labor market effects of the Mariel
Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by …

Starting in 2011, the Syrian conflict caused a large influx of refugees into Jordan. In 2015,
there were an estimated 1.3 million Syrians in a country with just 6.6 million Jordanians. This …

In the wake of the Venezuelan crisis, Colombian migrants are returning to their place of birth.
Since 2016, however, there has been a spike of immigration to Colombia attributable to …

Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in
their research. We use a many‐analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these …

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative
sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of …