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This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
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Much of the research on ethnicity, development and conflict implicitly assumes that ethnic groups act collectively in pursuit of their interests. Collective political action is typically facilitated by political parties able to make credible commitments to pursue group interests. Other work,...
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad …, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees survey and administrative data. The proposed method offers …
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This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to … seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii) Refugees today are less geographically concentrated. And (iv) refugees …
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Decades of conflict have contributed to high flows of internal displacement in Iraq. The incidence of these flows on the welfare of internally displaced persons is not well understood. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the link between internal displacement...
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This paper studies long-term impacts of violent conflict, to provide insights into the costs of conflict and policies to prevent conflict relapse. The findings link evidence on the contemporaneous effects of conflict with its persistent impact, especially by combining multiple data sources such...
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collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze … income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female … principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with …
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southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many questions from policy makers regarding the …
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-Saharan Africa from a long-term angle, from the perspective of refugees' own agency as well as from the perspective of the host … of the situation of refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa, the paper draws on findings from the literature to debunk some …Most reports on refugees deal with the immediate needs of displaced people. This paper seeks to go beyond the emergency …
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worldwide. This paper combines newly available data on the distribution of Syrian refugees across Turkey and the Turkish Labour … Force Survey to assess their labor market impact. Syrian refugees are overwhelmingly employed informally, since they were …
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