Does religion play a positive role in helping people cope with the terrible experiences they have been through? Does the level of resorting to religion differ depending on the conditions trauma victims live in? We shed some light on these questions by having Syrian refugees play a modified...

Are refugees likely to be nasty in a gated community? This paper investigates the willingness of Syrian refugee groups in the Zaatari refugee camp to engage in destructive behavior under the shadow of scarcity and competition. The paper uses the joy-of-destruction game to test the exogenous...

The use of monetary incentives in behavioral experiments has been debated between economists and psychologists for a long time. This paper extends the question of the differences in behavior to a very specific population, namely Syrian refugees in Jordan. Syrian refugees lost a lot because of...

We report the results of an experiment on norm violation, specifically lying, in a repeatedly played mind game with Syrian refugees in Jordan and in Germany. We compare their behavior with Jordanians, Germans, and Syrians who still live in Syria. The average number of lies is amazingly similar -...

An unprecedented number of refugees from Syria has sought refuge in both the Middle East andEurope since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011. We analyze the level of altruism and risk-seeking among Syrian civil war victims in Jordan. We find systematic variations in their revealed...