We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster … first leverage the quasi-random distribution of refugees "without U.S. ties" after the enactment of the 1980 Refugee Act, to … show that outward FDI to refugees' countries of origin grew more from those U.S. commuting zones that hosted greater …

We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster … first leverage the quasi-random distribution of refugees "without U.S. ties" after the enactment of the 1980 Refugee Act, to … show that outward FDI to refugees' countries of origin grew more from those U.S. commuting zones that hosted greater …