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Economic impact of giving land to refugees

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dc.contributor.authorZhu, Hengen
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Anubhaben
dc.contributor.authorFilipski, Mateuszen
dc.contributor.authorValli, Jaakkoen
dc.contributor.authorGonzalez-Estrada, Ernestoen
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, J. Edwarden
dc.coverage.countryUgandaen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-20T18:12:26Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-20T18:12:26Zen
dc.date.issued2023-01-19en
dc.date.updated2023-01-20T11:14:06Zen
dc.description.abstractThis paper adds to a sparse but growing literature on the economic costs and benefits of hosting refugees, including a unique policy of providing refugees with access to cultivable land. We construct a general equilibrium model from microsurvey data to simulate the spillover effects of giving land to refugees on income and production in the host-country economy surrounding a refugee settlement in Uganda. Reduced-form econometric analysis of land allocations at the refugee settlement, robust to several specifications, confirms the simulation finding that providing refugees with agricultural land significantly improves their welfare and self-reliance. Simulations reveal that refugee aid and land allocations generate positive income spillovers in the local economy out to a 15-km radius around the refugee settlement. Host-country households benefit significantly from the income spillovers that refugee assistance creates, and host-country agriculture is the largest beneficiary among production sectors.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12371en
dc.identifier.issn0002-9092en
dc.identifier.orcidGupta, Anubhab [0000-0002-1346-1880]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113321en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAgricultural and Applied Economics Associationen
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajae.12371en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectGeneral equilibriumen
dc.subjectImmigrationen
dc.subjectLanden
dc.subjectRefugeesen
dc.subjectSpilloversen
dc.subjectUgandaen
dc.titleEconomic impact of giving land to refugeesen
dc.title.serialAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economicsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-12-23en
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