TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Aksoy, Cevat Giray
AU  - Khanna, Gaurav
AU  - Marino, Victoria
AU  - Tumen, Semih
        TI  - Hometown Conflict and Refugees' Integration Efforts
        PY  - 2024/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16862
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16862
        AB  - How does violence in origin areas affect the educational outcomes of refugees in their destinations? Using administrative panel data, we find that heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian students leads to improvements in their school outcomes in Türkiye. Turkish language and Math scores of refugee students improve, with larger impacts on Turkish scores. There is no impact on naturalized Syrian students. We observe positive spillovers on Turkish students. These findings suggest ongoing violence in refugee-origin areas reduces the prospect of returning home, and induces students to increase their integration effort by investing in education.
        KW  - conflict
KW  - forced migration
KW  - integration effort
KW  - return migration
        ER  -