Economic impact of refugees
The number of refugees displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters is on the rise. Economic impacts of refugees on host countries are controversial and little understood, because data have not been available and the question of refugee impacts does not lend itself to conventional impact evaluat...
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| author | Taylor, J. Edward Filipski, Mateusz J. Alloush, Mohamad Gupta, Anubhab Rojas Valdes, Ruben Irvin Gonzalez-Estrada, Ernesto |
| author_browse | Alloush, Mohamad Filipski, Mateusz J. Gonzalez-Estrada, Ernesto Gupta, Anubhab Rojas Valdes, Ruben Irvin Taylor, J. Edward |
| author_facet | Taylor, J. Edward Filipski, Mateusz J. Alloush, Mohamad Gupta, Anubhab Rojas Valdes, Ruben Irvin Gonzalez-Estrada, Ernesto |
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| description | The number of refugees displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters is on the rise. Economic impacts of refugees on host countries are controversial and little understood, because data have not been available and the question of refugee impacts does not lend itself to conventional impact evaluation methods. We use a unique Monte Carlo simulation approach with microdata from refugee and host-country surveys to obtain the first estimates of refugee camps’ impacts on surrounding host-country economies and to compare impacts of cash versus in-kind refugee aid. An additional refugee increases total real income within a 10-km radius around two cash camps by significantly more than the aid the refugee receives. Impacts around a camp receiving in-kind (food) aid are smaller. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1475112024-10-25T07:58:45Z Economic impact of refugees Taylor, J. Edward Filipski, Mateusz J. Alloush, Mohamad Gupta, Anubhab Rojas Valdes, Ruben Irvin Gonzalez-Estrada, Ernesto refugees economic impact aid programmes computable general equilibrium models The number of refugees displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters is on the rise. Economic impacts of refugees on host countries are controversial and little understood, because data have not been available and the question of refugee impacts does not lend itself to conventional impact evaluation methods. We use a unique Monte Carlo simulation approach with microdata from refugee and host-country surveys to obtain the first estimates of refugee camps’ impacts on surrounding host-country economies and to compare impacts of cash versus in-kind refugee aid. An additional refugee increases total real income within a 10-km radius around two cash camps by significantly more than the aid the refugee receives. Impacts around a camp receiving in-kind (food) aid are smaller. 2016-06-22 2024-06-21T09:22:58Z 2024-06-21T09:22:58Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147511 en Open Access Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Taylor, J. Edward; Filipski, Mateusz J.; Alloush, Mohamad; Gupta, Anubhab; Rojas Valdes, Ruben Irvin; and Gonzalez-Estrada, Ernesto. 2016. Economic impact of refugees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 113(27): 7449 - 7453. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604566113 |
| spellingShingle | refugees economic impact aid programmes computable general equilibrium models Taylor, J. Edward Filipski, Mateusz J. Alloush, Mohamad Gupta, Anubhab Rojas Valdes, Ruben Irvin Gonzalez-Estrada, Ernesto Economic impact of refugees |
| title | Economic impact of refugees |
| title_full | Economic impact of refugees |
| title_fullStr | Economic impact of refugees |
| title_full_unstemmed | Economic impact of refugees |
| title_short | Economic impact of refugees |
| title_sort | economic impact of refugees |
| topic | refugees economic impact aid programmes computable general equilibrium models |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147511 |
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