JDC Literature Review
The JDC literature review contains summaries of recent publications and academic scholarship on issues relating to forced displacement.
Unexpected guests: The impact of internal displacement inflows on rental prices in Colombian host cities
The article examines the impact of IDP inflows on rental prices in Colombian cities. Even before the peak of the internal displacement crisis in the early 2000s, Colombia already had large housing deficits in urban areas. IDPs may affect the housing market in several...
Is a refugee crisis a housing crisis? Only if housing supply is unresponsive
This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugee inflows on housing expenditures and incomes in Jordan. The 2015 Jordanian Housing and Population Census identifies 1.3 million Syrian refugees in the country, of whom approximately 650,000 were registered as refugees....
Migration shocks and housing: Short-run impact of the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan
This paper evaluates the impact of inflows of Syrian refugees into Jordan on housing conditions and rental incomes for Jordanian nationals. At the end of 2019, when this paper was written, Jordan hosted 660,000 registered Syrian refugees, 80 percent of whom lived...
The economic impact of Syrian refugees on host countries: Quasi-experimental evidence from Turkey
This article examines how inflows of Syrian refugees affected labor market outcomes, consumer prices, and housing rents in Turkey. At the time the paper was written, Turkey was hosting 2.2 million Syrian refugees. The author compares the pre- and post- immigration...
Room in the kitchen for the melting pot: Immigration and rental prices
This paper examines the short-run impact of immigration on housing rental markets in the Miami metropolitan area following the Mariel boatlift. During the Mariel boatlift between May and September 1980, around 125,000 Cuban immigrants arrived in southern Florida....
Self-harming behaviours of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe: A systematic review
This article provides a systematic review of 12 studies published between 2008 and 2018 on self-harming behavior among refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe. Self-harming behavior is defined as the deliberate and self-inflicted damage of body tissue (such as cutting,...
Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements
This article examines the causal effect of refugees resettled in the United State (US) on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows from the US to refugees’ countries of origin, and studies the case of Vietnamese ‘boat people’ who arrived in the US in 1975. Specifically,...
Effects of including refugees in local government schools on pupils’ learning achievement: Evidence from West Nile, Uganda
This article examines the impact of including refugee children in government schools on learning achievement of both refugee and native pupils in the West Nile region of Uganda. Between June 2016 and December 2017, the refugee population in Uganda increased from 0.2...
The effect of 3.6 million refugees on crime
This paper estimates the causal effect of inflow Syrian refugees on crime rates in Turkey. By the end of 2020, the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey had reached 3.6 million, almost all of whom live outside of refugee camps in host communities. The authors examine...
When do refugees return home? Evidence from Syrian displacement in Mashreq
This paper analyzes the factors that influenced the early, voluntary, and unassisted return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq during a period of active conflict in Syria, between January 2011 and March 2018. The analysis is based on a novel dataset...