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Amir is an assistant professor in political science at the University Mohamed VI Polytechnique in Rabat, Morocco. He completed his Ph.D. in computational political science at the University of Toronto (Canada) and worked on refugee resettlement with the Lebanese Embassy in Cote d¡¯Ivoire in 2011.

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Chinedu is a research associate at the University of Pisa, Italy. His research interests include international migration, forced displacement, poverty and food security in developing countries.

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Hundanol is a recent graduate from the University of Virginia. His fields of research include trade, applied microeconomics, and development economics. Currently, he is a fellow on Forced Displacement under аIJʿª½± Development Economics Research Group.

Javier Parada is an agricultural economist, specializing in the application of econometric methods for big data analysis. His research interests lie at the intersections of conflict, agricultural productivity, and poverty. He is currently working on measuring land use changes in fragile countries with satellite imagery.

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Merve Demirel is a Ph.D. candidate at Bilkent University, Turkey, and has a master¡¯s degree in Mathematics. Her current research interest focuses on economics of education, labor economics, and migration.

Dynamic Effects of the Refugee Influx on the Turkish Labor Market and Understanding the Employment Preferences of Refugees

Mrittika Shamsuddin teaches Development Economics at the Dalhousie University in Bangladesh. She has a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and her research focuses on the effects of social protection programs, labor markets, migration decisions and assimilation.

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Leila Aghabarari started her career with the аIJʿª½±¡¯s Development Economics Group. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Italy, with her thesis focus on banks¡¯ lending during the financial crisis. Currently, Leila is a fellow with the аIJʿª½±-UNHCR Joint Data Center.

Surfing the Inclusiveness of Financial Opportunities for Refugees

Nelly El-Mallakh holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master's in Development Economics from the University of Paris 1 Panth¨¦on-Sorbonne.  Her research interests include migration, development, labor economics, and political economy.

Shocks, Migration, and Labor Markets in West Africa

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Eugenie Rose Fontep is an economist whose research is mainly focused on how human capital accumulation, labor market characteristics, and exogenous shocks, such as conflicts and pandemics, can have persisting consequences over generations.

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Nfamara K. Dampha holds a Ph.D. in Climate Change and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include global migration studies, climate change policy, natural resource economics, GIS-based remote sensing applications, and disaster risk reduction. Currently, he is a fellow with the аIJʿª½±-UNHCR Joint Data Center.

Costs and Benefits of Hosting Over 1 Million Refugees: A Natural Capital Accounting Approach in Bangladesh

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Solomon Zena Walelign is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley. He completed a double Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen and in Forest Sciences at Georg-August University of G?ttingen. His research focus includes livelihoods, poverty, large-scale land transaction, refugee-host community relationship, and climate change resettlement.

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Sosso Feindouno holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Cerdi (University of Auvergne), a Master¡¯s (M.Sc.) degree in Statistics and Econometrics from the Toulouse School of Economics. Currently, he is a fellow with the World-UNHCR Joint Data Center.

IDPs, Ethnic Balance and Conflict in the Sahel Region  

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Trong-Anh Trinh has a Ph.D. in Economics at RMIT University in Australia. His research interests include  applied microeconomics, with a focus on economic impacts of climate change and development economics.

Diluted Blood Still Better than Water?  The Beneficial Effects of Politicians¡¯ Birthplaces on Refugee  Acceptance and Foreign Aid

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Yeshwas Admasu is researching gender dimensions of forced displacement, where he examines the gender differences in access to resources and opportunities for restoring livelihoods among refugees in Ethiopia. His main research interests are development economics and labor economics, with a special focus in applying impact evaluation techniques. He has a Ph.D. from Heriot-watt University in United Kingdom, and M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

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