homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera – a region in northwestern Tanzania – received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of …-cohort variation and find that childhood exposure to this massive arrival of refugees reduced height in early adulthood by 1.8 cm (1 …

"Hard times for African refugees": Flight and migration from the Third World countries have assumed a previously … poor and deprived, the elderly, women and children, suffer the most. African refugees are particularly disadvantaged in … African refugees and migrants on Europe as bargaining chip for more development aid, and the alliance of German domestic and …

questions by having Syrian refugees play a modified ultimatum game in which they can punish their interaction partner and …

among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and survey data. We examine how this ethnic … population has changed over time by focusing on key socioeconomic indicators, such as poverty rates and levels of education …, occupation, and income. Third, we seek to explain what enables Vietnamese refugees and their children to overcome initial …

We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …

contract of employment, receiving hourly wages lower than the national hourly minimum wages, and experiencing insults and … and verbal abuse reveals itself when workers do not have a contract of employment and vice versa. Immigrant workers … promote written employment contracts and ensure a mechanism for workers to register violations of fair practices. …

that reducing consumption volatility would have on aggregate poverty. We then discuss coverage of consumption insurance …Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption … fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the …