This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee … causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both total refugee flows to the world and flows to donor countries. The …

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and …

Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …

In recent years, Europe has experienced an unprecedented influx of refugees. While natives' attitudes toward refugees … refugees' characteristics. We conducted survey experiments with more than 5,000 university students in Germany in which we … exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic …

During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these … refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal …

refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …

host countries. We used Facebook ads to recruit a panel of Ukrainian refugees in Europe, starting in June 2022. Six waves … carried out in 2022 and 2023 allow us to examine the causal impact of local conflict intensity on refugees' return intentions … and integration. We find that less than 10% of Ukrainian refugees express a desire to permanently settle abroad. While the …

experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash … grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees. …

refugees as opposed to all immigrants on aggregate. …