Forced migration

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• "Assessing the direct and spillover effects of shocks to refugee remittances," with Anne Bartlett and Sarah Walker, World Development, 121: 63-74, 2019, published online May 10, 2019

  • • • Final submitted manuscript

      • Refugee data; Turkana data

• “Do refugee camps help or hurt hosts? The case of Kakuma”, with Sarah Walker, Anne Bartlett, Harun Onder, and Apurva Sanghi, Journal of Development Economics, 130: 66-83, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.09.005

  • • • Final submitted manuscript

      • See also blog posts summarizing this article on VoxDev and Refugees Deeply. At minute 12:25 of this radio broadcast from Voice of America,  you can also hear a summary of this work.

      • Nighttime lights data; household data; household roster

• “Occupations under fire: The labor market in a complex emergency” with Anne Bartlett, Oxford Economic Papers, 67(3): 687-714, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpv006

•  “The Landscape of Conflict: IDPs, aid, and land use change in Darfur” with Anne Bartlett and David Saah, Journal of Economic Geography 13 (4): 589-617, 2013 https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs044

• “Displaced Populations, Humanitarian Assistance, and Hosts: a framework for analyzing impacts on semi-urban households” with Anne Bartlett and David Saah,  World Development 2011 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.06.002

• “The Effect of Refugee Inflows on Host Country Populations: Evidence from Tanzania” with David Saah, World Bank Economic Review 24(1): 148-170, 2010 https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhp014

 REPORTS

• “The Economics of Hosting Refugees: A Host Community Perspective from Turkana” with Erhan Artuc and Harun Onder, World Bank Group and UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, 2017

• “Impacts of Kakuma refugee camp on local hosts, Turkana region, Kenya,” with Anne Bartlett, Sarah Walker, and David Mayom.  Background paper for World Bank Report Yes! In my backyard, 2016