Working Papers

• Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes Toward Refugees in Uganda 

Reject and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

(with Travis Baseler, Robert Hakiza, Helidah Ogude-Chambert, and Olivia Woldemikael) 

• Blog :: Full Pre-Specified Results :: AEA Registry and Pre-Analysis Plan

• Coverage: VoxDev

• Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: An Evaluation Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries 

(with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Franco Malpassi)

• Prison or Sanctuary? An Evaluation of Camps for Syrian Refugees

  • • Jordan Data :: Iraq Data :: Lebanon Data (Collected in collaboration with Nandini Krishnan, Dhiraj Sharma, and Tara Vishwanath)

• Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries 

(with Michael Clemens)

• Blog

• Coverage: Think Global Health, Bloomberg

Academic Publications

• Refugees and the Education of Host Populations: Evidence from the Syrian Inflow to Jordan

Journal of Development Economics, Volume 164. September 2023.

(with Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Saleh) 

• Working Paper :: Data

• Coverage: VoxDev

• HIV prevention among youth: A randomized controlled trial of voluntary counseling and testing for HIV and male condom distribution in rural Kenya 

PLOS ONE, 14 (7): e0219535. July 2019.

(with Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Grace Makana Barasa, Moses Baraza, Victor Pouliquen, and Vandana Sharma) 

• Data

Selected Work in Progress

• Rebuild: Refugee Economic and Social Integration in East Africa 

(with Travis Baseler, Ibrahim Kasirye, Belinda Muya, and Andrew Zeitlin)

• AEA Registry and Pre-Analysis Plan :: Participant Handbooks :: Training Videos

• Designing a Randomized Controlled Trial on Livelihoods for Refugees and Hosts

• Information Frictions in Internal Migration: A Planned Experiment in Kenya 

(with Zachary Barnett-Howell and Travis Baseler)

• AEA Registry and Pre-Analysis Plan

• Global Displacement Locations with Yearly Population Data 

(with Andrew Shaver and Yang-Yang Zhou)

Reports

• 2022 Global Refugee Work Rights Report 

(with Reva Resstack, Helen Dempster, Emily Arnold-Fernández, Sarah Miller, Martha Guerrero Ble and Bahati Kanyamanza)

• Website :: Blog :: Data

• Coverage: Politico, Al Arabiyya

• Labor Market Access and Outcomes for Refugees 

• Locked Down and Left Behind: The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees’ Economic Inclusion 

(with Helen Dempster, Jimmy Graham, Martha Guerrero Ble, Daphne Jayasinghe, and Barri Shorey)

• Coverage: Reuters, Voice of America

Selected Additional Blogs

• The World Bank Window for Host Communities and Refugees: Opportunities for Learning and Expansion in Africa and Beyond

(with Cindy Huang)

• World Refugee Day: Five Things We're Watching in 2022 

(with Helen Dempster)

• Including Immigrants is Good Policy Not Just During the Pandemic, but Afterwards Too 

(with Janeen Madan Keller)