An adaptive targeted field experiment: Job search assistance for refugees in Jordan

AS Caria, G Gordon, M Kasy, S Quinn… - Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We introduce an adaptive targeted treatment assignment methodology for field experiments.
Our Tempered Thompson Algorithm balances the goals of maximizing the precision of …

Does aid reduce anti-refugee violence? Evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon

MC Lehmann, DTR Masterson - American Political Science Review, 2020 - cambridge.org
Anti-refugee violence often accompanies refugee migration, but the factors that fuel or
mitigate that violence remain poorly understood, including the common policy response in …

[PDF][PDF] Introducing the Egypt labor market panel survey 2018

C Krafft, R Assaad, KW Rahman - IZA Journal of Development …, 2021 - intapi.sciendo.com
This paper introduces the 2018 wave of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS),
previously fielded in 1998, 2006, and 2012. The ELMPS has already become the primary …

Sometimes it is the little things: A meta-analysis of individual and contextual determinants of attitudes toward immigration (2009–2019)

L Dražanová - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2022 - Elsevier
Attitudes toward immigration have attracted much scholarly interest and fuelled extensive
empirical research in recent years. Many different hypotheses have been proposed to …

Misperceptions about refugee policy

E Thorson, L Abdelaaty - American Political Science Review, 2023 - cambridge.org
This letter explores the prevalence of misperceptions about refugee policy and tests whether
correcting these misperceptions changes attitudes toward refugees. Large numbers of …

Forced displacement and asylum policy in the developing world

CW Blair, G Grossman, JM Weinstein - International Organization, 2022 - cambridge.org
Little theoretical or empirical work examines migration policy in the developing world. We
develop and test a theory that distinguishes the drivers of policy reform and factors …

The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management

A Vrânceanu, E Dinas, T Heidland… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What preferences do people have for cross‐country cooperation on irregular migration and
refugee protection? Existing research improves our understanding of how voters react to …

Political economy of refugees: How responsibility shapes the politics of education

S Carvalho, S Dryden-Peterson - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
In this theory generating article, we take up the question of what shapes the role of host
governments in social service provision for refugees, using the case of education. We …

Reexamining the effect of refugees on civil conflict: a global subnational analysis

YY Zhou, A Shaver - American Political Science Review, 2021 - cambridge.org
A large literature suggests that the presence of refugees is associated with greater risk of
conflict. We argue that the positive effects of hosting refugees on local conditions have been …

Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches

N Aydemir - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Asylum is at the core of political discussions in Turkey. The country has rapidly turned into
the world's largest host state in less than a decade, despite a long tradition of excluding non …