Refugees and ‘native flight’ from public to private schools

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Migration shocks and housing: Short-run impact of the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan

“…where are housing outcomes for household i at time t in locality/district l. Since the JLMPS data is panel data, the same household is observed twice, once at T = 0 (2010) and once at T=1 Tumen, 2019). This term is included to relax the common-trends assumption across treated and control areas within governorates.…”

Cooperation in a fragmented society: Experimental evidence on Syrian refugees and natives in Lebanon

“…7 More specific to our setting, a few recent studies have examined the impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey, for example Tumen (2016) andDel Carpio andWagner (2015), and in Jordan, for example, Fallah, Krafft and Wahba (2019). Another set of studies has studied the impact of the inflow of Syrian refugees on the well-being of the host population and in particular on the impact on education and housing (e.g., Balkan et al, 2018;Tumen, 2019;and Assaad, Ginn and Saleh, 2019), and consumer prices (Balkan and Tumen, 2016).…”

An Examination of Syrian Students’ Educational Experiences at School From the Reflections of Teachers

“…Displacement from the areas where they live results in dispersed family structures and interrupted education among refugees and asylum seekers. Although a great deal of value is placed on education in Turkey, difficulties are experienced in the education of Syrian students due to both the structure of the Turkish education system and of Syrian families (Çelik & İçduygu, 2018;Toker-Gökçe & Acar, 2018;Şahin & Sümer, 2018;Tumen, 2019). However, education is a human right.…”