We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of … the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate …

We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched … refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll … percentage points two years after. The policy was especially effective for male refugees and refugees with some secondary …

counties I show that the settlement of refugees had a large and persistent effect on the size of the local population …

Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in … the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … benefits, but we find evidence of temporarily higher property crime when refugees received lower benefits. We also find that …

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …