3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement
Date: September 19-21, 2024
Location: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Online
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Organized in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency, the World Bank and the African School of Economics (ASE), the World Bank – UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) is pleased to announce its 3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement which will take place from 19th to 21st September 2024.
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- Socioeconomic analysis of forcibly displaced populations – particularly internally displaced people (IDP) and stateless people
- Socioeconomic analysis of forced displacement in sub-Saharan Africa
- Innovations in data-related forced displacement research (e.g., sampling, data collection)
- Operational and policy impact of data and evidence in displacement settings
- Pan-African solutions for re-integration and inclusion of forcibly displaced communities.
Conference venue: Novotel Abidjan Plateau https://all.accor.com/hotel/0481/index.en.shtml
For visa info, please refer ONLY to this website: https://snedai.com/e-visa/
Kindly note that a Yellow Fever vaccination card is required for entry into the country. Additionally, it is your responsibility to verify any other health-related requirements with the relevant authorities before your travel.
Speakers
Anna Maria Mayda
Anna Maria Mayda is a Professor of Economics at the School of Foreign Service and Department of Economics at Georgetown University. Previously she worked at the World Bank in the Latin America and Caribbean Region Unit. Her research focuses on international migration, international trade and political economy. Anna Maria studied Economics and Statistics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and she received her MA and PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2003. She is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the Institute of Labor Economics, and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration.
Guy Grossman
Guy Grossman is a professor at the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in applied political economy, with a substantive focus on governance, migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and conflict processes, mostly in the context of developing countries. Grossman is the founder and co-director of Penn’s Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (2011, with distinction) as well as MA in Political Philosophy and LLB in Law, both from Tel-Aviv University.
Leonard Wantchekon
Leonard Wantchekon is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, as well as associated faculty in Economics. A scholar with diverse interests, Wantchekon has made substantive and methodological contributions to the fields of political economy, economic history and development economics. He taught at Yale University (1995–2001) and New York University (2001–2011). He has an M.A. in Economics from Laval University and the University of British Columbia and he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. He is the Founder and President of the African School of Economics, which opened in Benin in 2014.
Robert Piper
Robert Piper took up the post of the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement in June 2022. Prior this, Mr. Piper served as Assistant Secretary-General for Development Coordination. He brings to the position more than 30 years of experience in international development, humanitarian response and peacebuilding at the United Nations which he joined in 1990 at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Bangkok. Since then, he has held a number of key positions within UNDP at Headquarters, and in the field, including as inaugural Director for the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund and as Deputy Director for Emergency Response.
Program
Session Timings TBC
Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia – Colette Salemi
Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries – Thomas Ginn
Attitudes Towards Refugee Hosting and Integration Policies: Evidence from Kenya – Mae Macdonald
The Power of Dialogue: Forced Displacement and Social Integration amid an Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique – Henrique Pita Barros
Electoral Effects of Integrating Forced Migrants: Evidence from a Southern Country – María José Urbina
Housing Subsidies and Well-being: Forecasts and Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Jordan – Bailey Palmer
Mentoring Small Businesses: Evidence from Uganda – Thomas Ginn
Contact in the Workplace and Social Cohesion: Experimental Evidence from Uganda – Mariajose Silva-Vargas
Entrepreneurship support for refugees and host communities in a fragile context: evidence from a randomized experiment in Niger – Marcus Holmlund (TBC)
Visa Policies and Porous Borders: Quasi-experimental Evidence on their Short and Long-term Effects from Peru – Omar Hammoud-Gallego
Comparing Internally Displaced Persons with Those Left Behind: Evidence from the Central African Republic – Jonathan Lain
Refugee Return and Conflict: Evidence from a Natural Experiment – Christopher Blair
Labor Market Effect of Granting Amnesty to Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in the Dominican Republic – Craig Loschmann
Is Giving Working Rights to Refugees Hurting their Hosts? Evidence from Jordan – Jean-François Maystadt
Exploring the Spillover Effects of Internally Displaced Settlements on the Wellbeing of Children of the Locales – Joseph Ajefu
Caregiver Mental Health and Early Childhood Development: Experimental Evidence from a Conflict-Affected Setting – Andres Moya
Stigma and Social Cover: A Mental Health Care Experiment in Refugee Networks – Emma Smith
Regularization Programs and the Fertility of Forced Migrants: Insights from a Panel Study of Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia – Sandra Rozo
War on Polio: Vaccinating the Hard-to-Reach is not Enough – Laura Munoz Blanco
The Effects of Civil War and Forced Migration on Intimate Partner Violence among Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan – Murat Kirdar
