economic institutions from the surge of refugees from the First Gulf War. The surge of refugees to Jordan in 1990-1991 was … massive and equal to 10 percent of Jordan's population in 1990. Importantly, these refugees were able to have a large and … quirk in Jordanian law. The refugee surge was the main mechanism by which Jordan's economic institutions improved in the …

"The Syrian Civil War has displaced 60 percent of the country's population. Six million refugees live in neighboring … Syrians in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. The authors used multiple methods: interviews with stakeholders, focus groups with … overall economic climate and strategies for preserving and improving social cohesion of refugees and host communities are …

of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify the validity of height as a proxy for human and health capital. We further … immigration of European refugees. …

Over the last 15 years, the locus of policymaking towards asylum seekers and refugees has shifted away from national …

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 …