Essays on the economics of forced migration : evidence from Syrians in the Levant
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores three leading, policy-relevant questions on migration related to conflict, focusing on Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq. In the first chapter, I study the effects of living in a camp relative to self-settling in the same country. I find that camp residence reduces household income, but the gap is less than the rent saved; I argue that, in some settings, camps can be an efficient subsidy to refugees willing to opt out of urban areas. In the second chapter, I study the returns to leaving the Syrian Civil War. I find the differences between staying and leaving are minimal for most destinations across mortality, employment, education, and satisfaction. In the third chapter, joint with Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Saleh, I study the effects of Syrian refugees on the education of Jordanian children. I find that Syrians did not affect the attainment of Jordanians, thanks in large part to a second, donor-funded shift in the most affected areas.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ginn, Thomas Clinton |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Degree supervisor | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Thesis advisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Thesis advisor | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Thesis advisor | Morten, Melanie |
| Thesis advisor | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
| Degree committee member | Morten, Melanie |
| Degree committee member | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Thomas Ginn. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Thomas Clinton Ginn
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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