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Training teachers for diversity awareness: impact on school attendance of refugee children

Tumen, Semih; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Wahba, Jackline - 2021

Despite efforts to integrate refugee children into host country education systems, their low school attachment remains a major policy challenge. Teachers play a key role in keeping students attached to school, yet classroom diversity poses difficulties for teachers who are not always adequately...

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The crime effect of refugees

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - 2022

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 … the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate … instrumental variables models that address potential endogeneity of the number of refugees and their location, and find that an …

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Ethnic mixing in early childhood: evidence from a randomized field experiment and a structural model

Boucher, Vincent; Tumen, Semih; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2021

We study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to groups with varying ethnic composition and find that...

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Refugees and "native flight" from public to private schools

Tumen, Semih - 2019

Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in refugee-to-population ratio generates, on average, 0.16 percentage-point increase in private primary school...

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The use of natural experiments in migration research : data on rapid, unexpected refugee flows can credibly identify the impact of migration on native workers' labor market outcome...

Tumen, Semih - 2015

civil wars and natural catastrophes that generate rapid and unexpected flows of refugees into a country unrelated to their …

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Immigration and prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey

Balkan Konuk, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2016

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Immigration and prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2016

We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to … the channel through which the price declines take place is the informal labor market. Syrian refugees supply inexpensive …

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Immigration and Prices : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur - 2016

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The effect of refugees on native adolescents’ test scores : quasi-experimental evidence from PISA

Tumen, Semih - In: Journal of development economics 150 (2021), pp. 1-15

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The Impact of Low-Skill Refugees on Youth Education

Tumen, Semih - 2018

This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugees on high school enrollment rates of native youth in Turkey. Syrian … refugees are, on average, less skilled and more willing to work in low-pay informal jobs than Turkish natives. Refugees can …

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