Migration decisions are made in the context of personal needs and desires, and the
individuals making these decisions face uncertain outcomes. Information about future …

This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-
foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology …

This article explores the journeys of Syrian and Afghan refugees to Europe, looking at two of
the largest and politically most salient flows of asylum seekers during the 2010s. Following …

How do populations facing external aggression view the costs and benefits of self‐defense?
In Western countries, war support has been shown to follow cost–benefit calculations …

Despite the growing numbers of forcibly displaced persons worldwide, many people living
under conflict choose not to flee. Individuals face two lotteries--staying or leaving …

Digital trace data presents an opportunity for promptly monitoring shifts in migrant
populations. This contribution aims to determine whether the number of European migrants …

How do heterogeneous patterns of violence affect people's decision to flee? We provide
individual-level evidence on flight decision-making in light of violence with a conjoint …

For refugees who have fled civil conflict, do experiences of victimization by one armed group
push them to support the opposing armed groups? Or, does victimization cause refugees to …

This chapter outlines the role that individual-level empirical evidence gathered from
psychological experiments and surveys can play in informing agent-based models, and the …

Background In this paper, we explore the potential of games to collect empirical data for
informing agent-based simulation models of migration. To examine the usefulness of game …