Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates …. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of refugees in the UK. We fill this gap by looking … at the case of "East African Asians" who arrived as refugees in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We use data from the UK …

. -- Civil conflicts ; refugees ; children ; human capital ; health ; Africa … homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of …

Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical … citizen status allows refugees to close their gaps in labor market outcomes relative to non-refugee migrants while having non …

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According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect …

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account … for the potential endogeneity in the distribution of refugees, I use pre-existing group accommodations as instrumental …