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How to Cope with a Refugee Shock ? Evidence from Uganda

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  • Kadigo,Mark Marvin
  • Diallo,Nene Oumou
  • Maystadt,Jean Francois Paul C

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Sub-Saharan Africa hosts a large proportion of the world’s refugees, raising concerns aboutthe consequences of hosting refugees. This paper focuses on Uganda, which is the largest refugee hosting country inAfrica and is praised for its progressive refugee policy. The paper analyzes the effects of hosting refugees, relyingon longitudinal data and an instrumental variable approach. The results indicate that Ugandan households benefit fromliving close to the refugee settlements. In contrast with the existing literature, the analysis finds that thoseinitially involved in subsistence agriculture benefit the most. The effect seems to be driven by the few householdsable to move from subsistence agriculture to commercial farming and to some extent, to wage employment.

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  • Kadigo,Mark Marvin & Diallo,Nene Oumou & Maystadt,Jean Francois Paul C, 2022. "How to Cope with a Refugee Shock ? Evidence from Uganda," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9950, The World Bank.
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    1. Becker, Malte & Krüger, Finja & Heidland, Tobias, 2024. "What Drives Attitudes toward Immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Uganda and Senegal," IZA Discussion Papers 16734, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    Employment and Unemployment; Labor Markets; Educational Sciences; Wages; Compensation & Benefits; Agricultural Economics;
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