Hosting the Rohingya

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ ), 241 See map
115 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

While forced displacement grows in its scope, magnitude, and duration, significant uncertainty remains over priority topics from the most effective forms of humanitarian assistance to the best ways of integrating refugees while protecting the wellbeing of host communities. Our response to this evidence gap is the Cox’s Bazar Panel Survey, which measures a range of outcomes and behavior for large, representative samples of hosts and refugees in Bangladesh. Drawing on the newly collected first wave of data, we report on economic and social life in and around the world’s largest refugee settlements. Addressing a central concern of receiving countries, we provide quasi-experimental evidence on how the arrival of refugees and the associated humanitarian response has affected host communities.

C. Austin Davis is an Assistant Professor of Economics at American University and a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale. His research focuses on mobility in developing-country labor markets and agriculture, and this mobility interacts with environmental forces.