(1/N) Pleasure to edit the brand-new
JDC UNHCR @Refugees @WorldBank Quarterly Digest on
"Long-Term Consequences of Forced Displacement"
doi.org/10.47053/jdc.0…
Part I: Intro
Part II: Summaries of papers by the amazing @zsarzin
highlighting three (selective) salient themes
(2/N)
Theme 1: Long-Term Impact of Refugees on Innovation and Technological Progress
Theme 2: Agglomeration Effects and Infrastructure Investments
Theme 3: Impact on Refugee Preferences
(3/N) Theme 1 papers (summarized by @zsarzin):
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
by @HornungErik
American Economic Review, Volume 104, Issue 1 (2014), Pages 84–122
dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.10…
(4/N)
German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
by @PMoserEcon, @AlesVoena and Fabian Waldinger
American Economic Review, Volume 104, Issue 10 (2014), Pages 3222–3255
dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.10…
(5/N)
Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India
by Prashant Bharadwaj and Rinchan Ali Mirza
Explorations in Economic History, Volume 73 (2019)
doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.…
(6/N)
Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement
by @ElieMurard and @sosakalli
cream-migration.org/publ_uploads/C…
(7/N)
Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
@dany_bahar, @CemOzguzel, Andreas Hauptmann, and Hillel Rapoport
IZA Discussion Paper Series, No. 12412 (2019)
iza.org/publications/d…
(8/N) Theme 2 papers summarized by @zsarzin:
The Development Push of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania
@jfmaystadt and Gilles Duranton
Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 19, Issue 2 (2019), Pages 299–334
doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lb…
(9/N)
Market Size and Spatial Growth – Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Expulsions
Michael Peters @Yale
mipeters.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/…
(10/N) Theme 3 paper summarized by @zsarzin:
Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
by S. Becker, Irena Grosfeld, Pauline Grosjean, Nico Voigtländer, @ezhuravskaya
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
(END) I like the initiative by the JDC's @bgillsater and Domenico Tabasso to summarize academic research for policy-makers.
Looking forward to future editions of the JDC Quarterly Digest and what topics they will cover!
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