How does violence in origin areas affect the educational outcomes of refugees in their destinations? Using administrative panel data, we find that heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian students leads to improvements in their school outcomes in Türkiye. Turkish language and Math scores...

How does violence in origin areas affect the educational outcomes of refugees in their destinations? Using administrative panel data, we find that heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian students leads to improvements in their school outcomes in Türkiye. Turkish language and Math scores...

This paper reanalyzes Khanna (2023), which studies labor market effects of schooling in India through regression discontinuity designs. Absent from the data are four districts close to the discontinuity; restoring them cuts the reduced-form impacts on schooling and log wages by 57% and 63%....

Roodman (2023) (henceforth R23) re-evaluates Khanna (2023) (henceforth K23). R23 is able to replicate K23's results, highlighting no mistakes in K23's analysis. R23 argues that K23's results may be sensitive to recreating part of the underlying district-level sample, using a subset of K23's...

Roodman (2023) (henceforth R23) re-evaluates Khanna (2023) (henceforth K23). R23 is able to replicate K23's results, highlighting no mistakes in K23's analysis. R23 argues that K23's results may be sensitive to recreating part of the underlying district-level sample, using a subset of K23's...

We examine how cultural proximity shapes production networks, and affects aggregate welfare and productivity. We combine a new dataset of firm-to-firm trade for a large Indian state with information on cultural proximity between firms derived from India’s caste and religious classifications....

How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...