This initiative synthetizes lessons emerging from the entire research program and complements the program with additional studies. Research activities include literature reviews, desk research, meta-analyses of existing literature and original studies complementing research financed under the activities, shedding light on global questions, and improving programs.
This paper reviews 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities, including impact on wages, employment, household well-being, labor markets among others.
This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveys and administrative data.
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This paper provides a first non-technical introduction to the economics of forced displacement and argues that the modeling of utility, choice, risk, and information in a short-term setting is the key to address the problem.
This study uses existing data sources and complements them with new data to understand the socioeconomic characteristics of Afghan returnees, and the drivers of the decision to return.
As humanitarian organizations operate under increasing budget constraints and demands for efficiency, this paper shows that using Receiver Operating Characteristic can optimize targeted coverage, and increase overall efficiency of a program.
This paper proposes to model the drivers that impact the choice between living under conflict and the decision to flee.
This review aims to contribute toward a stronger conceptual and practical understanding of social cohesion in the context of forced displacement and includes reflection on the current portfolio of WBG forced displacement projects.
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