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Building Evidence on Forced Displacement

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Afghanistan

Living Conditions and Settlement Decisions of Recent Afghan Returnees: Findings from a 2018 Phone Survey of Afghan Returnees and UNHCR data (English)

More is better: Evaluating the impact of a variation in cash assistance on the reintegration outcomes of returning Afghan refugees

No Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation

Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan

Australia

Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Bangladesh

The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Health Country Report --- Bangladesh

Rohingya Refugee Camps and Forest Loss in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: An Inquiry Using Remote Sensing and Econometric Approaches

Brazil

Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

The Fiscal Impact of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Exposure to Conflict and Long-run Education and Income Inequality: Evidence from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Burundi

Refugee Return and Social Cohesion

Cameroon

Integrating assistance to the displaced into a social protection system in Cameroon. An ideal, but in whose interests?

Chad

Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Chile

Why Student Aid Matters ? Roadblocks to the Transition into Higher Education for Forced Migrants in Chile

Colombia

Health Country Report --- Colombia

Do Gender Norms Become Less Traditional with Displacement The Case of Colombia

Policy Preferences in Response to Large Migration Inflows

Social Cohesion, Economic Security, and Forced Displacement in the Long-Run : Evidence from Rural Colombia

Social protection responses to forced displacement in Colombia

Superstitions and Civilian Displacement: Evidence from the Colombian Conflict

The Risk that Travels with You: The Links between Forced Displacement, Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia and Liberia

Croatia

Exposure to Conflict and Long-run Education and Income Inequality: Evidence from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

DRC

Conflict, Displacement and Overlapping Vulnerabilities: Understanding Risk Factors for Gender-based Violence among Displaced Women in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Health Country Report --- Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hosting New Neighbors: Perspectives of Host Communities on Social Cohesion in Eastern DRC

Ethiopia

Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: A Case of Refugees in Ethiopia

Livelihood impacts of refugees on host communities: Evidence from Ethiopia

Monitoring COVID-19 Impact on Refugees in Ethiopia, Report No. 2: Results from a High-Frequency Phone Survey of Refugees

Monitoring COVID-19 Impact on Refugees in Ethiopia: Results from a High-Frequency Phone Survey of Refugees (English)

Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia

Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation

Germany

Forced Migration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the 2015/16 Mass Inflow in Germany

Global

A Simple Early Warning Signal for COVID-19

Adjusting social protection delivery to support displaced populations

Adjusting social protection delivery to support displaced populations: A toolkit

Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees : Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Basic needs and wellbeing in displacement settings: the role of humanitarian assistance and social protection

COVID-19 in humanitarian settings and lessons learned from past epidemics

Data Options for Assessing Gendered Dimensions of Forced Displacement

Effects of assistance provision on social cohesion in contexts of forced displacement: a background literature review

Estimating Food Price Inflation from Partial Surveys

Estimation of the infection fatality rate and the total number of SARS-CoV-2 infections

Health Final report - Executive Summary

Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement Research Program Overview

Humanitarian assistance and social protection in contexts of forced displacement: effects on social cohesion

Impact Evaluations in Forced Displacement Contexts: A Guide for Practitioners

Linking social protection and humanitarian assistance: A toolkit to support basic needs and wellbeing in displacement settings

Linking social protection and humanitarian assistance: Guidance to assess the factors and actors that determine an optimal approach in a displacement setting. A toolkit

Linking social protection and humanitarian assistance. A toolkit to support social cohesion in displacement settings

Social protection literature review

Measuring Poverty In Forced Displacement Contexts

Optimal targeting under budget constraints in a humanitarian context

Proposed Approach for the Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement Research Program

Publication: Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement: A Synthesis of New Research

Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement: a desk review to inform programming and project design

The Economic Effects of Refugee Return and Policy Implications

The Economics of Forced Displacement: An Introduction

The Economics of Refugee Return

The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics

Understanding Decisions Made on Asylum Applications in Host Countries (English)

What can existing microdata tell us about transfer receipt among host and displaced populations?

Conflict and Girl Child Marriage: Global Evidence

Greece

Humanitarian assistance and social protection responses to the forcibly displaced in Greece

Long-Term Effects of the 1923 Mass Refugee Inflow on Social Cohesion in Greece
Project Proposal

Guatemala

Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees

Iran

How Do Shared Experiences of Economic Shocks Impact Refugees and Host Communities Evidence from Afghan Refugees in Iran

Iraq

How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection Evidence from Iraq

Iraq's Universal Public Distribution System : Utilization and Impacts During Displacement

Local Peace Agreements and the Return of IDPs with Perceived ISIL Affiliation in Iraq

Multidimensional Poverty Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq

Displacement and Social Empowerment : Evidence from Surveys of IDPs in Iraq, the Philippines, and Uganda

Jordan

Country Report --- Jordan

Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity ? (English)

Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation

How Do Gender Norms Shape Education and Domestic Work Outcomes The Case of Syrian Refugee Adolescents in Jordan

How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Optimal targeting under budget constraints in a humanitarian context

The Impact of hosting arrangement (camp vs out-of-camp) on the quality of life of refugees. The case of Syrian refugees in Jordan

Building Stability Between Host and Refugee Communities : Evidence from a TVET Program in Jordan and Lebanon

Kenya

Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Market Outcomes of Refugees and Nationals in Kenya

Understanding the Socioeconomic Conditions of Refugees in Kalobeyei, Kenya

Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation

Lebanon

Building Stability Between Host and Refugee Communities : Evidence from a TVET Program in Jordan and Lebanon

Liberia

The Risk that Travels with You: The Links between Forced Displacement, Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia and Liberia

Mali

Intimate Partner Violence and Household Decision Making Autonomy : Effects of the Malian Conflict on Women

The Effects of Internally Displaced Peoples on Consumption and Inequality in Mali

Nigeria

Coping with Compounding Challenges in Conflict Crises : Evidence from North-east Nigeria

Effect of Armed Conflict on Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria (English)

Inequality and Security in the Aftermath of Internal Population Displacement Shocks: Evidence from Nigeria

Risk Preferences and Decision to Flee Conflict

Peru

Immigration, Labor Markets and Discrimination : Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Peru

Philippines

Displacement and Social Empowerment : Evidence from Surveys of IDPs in Iraq, the Philippines, and Uganda

Rwanda

Climate resilience in Rwanda: evaluating refugees’ and host populations’ vulnerability to risk

Somalia

Differences in Household Composition: Hidden Dimensions of Poverty and Displacement in Somalia

South Africa

Distributional Policies and Social Cohesion in a High-Unemployment Setting

South Sudan

What it takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the safe return of internally displaced people

Sub Saharan Africa

Multi-country paper 4 - A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement

The effects of refugees’ camps on hosting areas: Social conflicts and economic growth

Refugees, Diversity and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sudan

The Double Burden of Female Protracted Displacement : Survey Evidence on Gendered Livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur

Switzerland

Labor Market Integration, Local Conditions and Inequalities : Evidence from Refugees in Switzerland

Syrian Arab Republic

Displacement and return in the internet Era: Social media for monitoring migration decisions in Northern Syria

Tanzania

Intergenerational Impact of Population Shocks on Children's Health: Evidence from the 1993-2001 Refugee Crisis in Tanzania

Turkey

Out of sight, out of mind: The impact of lockdown measures on sentiment towards refugees

What are the impacts of Syrian refugees on Host Communities Welfare on Refugees in Turkey?

Uganda

Can Development Aid Change Attitudes toward Refugees? Experimental Evidence from Urban Microentrepreneurs in Uganda

How to cope with a refugee shock: evidence from Uganda

Inclusive refugee-hosting can improve local development and prevent public backlash

Displacement and Social Empowerment : Evidence from Surveys of IDPs in Iraq, the Philippines, and Uganda

Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation

West Africa

Climate Shocks, Migration, and Labor Markets: A Gender Analysis from West Africa

How do shocks affect enrollment in faith-based schools? Evidence from West Africa