Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia

This paper examines the welfare impact of hosting refugees in Ethiopia, one of the largest refugee-hosting countries worldwide. Identification comes from a large spatial difference in within-village temporal changes in refugee intensity, following...

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Main Author:	Ayenew, Ashenafi Belayneh
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	REFUGEES CONSUMPTION WEALTH POVERTY EMPLOYMENT PRICE COOPERATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/895691617713103514/Welfare-Impact-of-Hosting-Refugees-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35408

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spelling	okr-10986-354082022-09-20T00:10:14Z Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia Ayenew, Ashenafi Belayneh REFUGEES CONSUMPTION WEALTH POVERTY EMPLOYMENT PRICE COOPERATION This paper examines the welfare impact of hosting refugees in Ethiopia, one of the largest refugee-hosting countries worldwide. Identification comes from a large spatial difference in within-village temporal changes in refugee intensity, following a recent upsurge in the flow of refugees into the country. The findings reveal different implications depending on the type of household welfare metric. While reducing consumption expenditure per capita and increasing the probability of falling into consumption poverty, hosting refugees has no effect on wealth and the status of wealth poverty. Decomposing consumption expenditure per capita into food, education, and other nonfood components, the results further reveal that hosting refugees alters the composition of consumption, as it solely affects food consumption expenditure. The consumption effects prevail in rural areas with no effects in urban centers while no heterogeneity is found concerning wealth and wealth poverty results. Key mechanisms explaining the adverse consumption effects include displacement of hosts from salaried employment and a spike in prices of agricultural inputs but not changes in the extent of societal cooperation. 2021-04-08T18:23:44Z 2021-04-08T18:23:44Z 2021-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/895691617713103514/Welfare-Impact-of-Hosting-Refugees-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35408 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9613 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Ethiopia
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description	This paper examines the welfare impact of hosting refugees in Ethiopia, one of the largest refugee-hosting countries worldwide. Identification comes from a large spatial difference in within-village temporal changes in refugee intensity, following a recent upsurge in the flow of refugees into the country. The findings reveal different implications depending on the type of household welfare metric. While reducing consumption expenditure per capita and increasing the probability of falling into consumption poverty, hosting refugees has no effect on wealth and the status of wealth poverty. Decomposing consumption expenditure per capita into food, education, and other nonfood components, the results further reveal that hosting refugees alters the composition of consumption, as it solely affects food consumption expenditure. The consumption effects prevail in rural areas with no effects in urban centers while no heterogeneity is found concerning wealth and wealth poverty results. Key mechanisms explaining the adverse consumption effects include displacement of hosts from salaried employment and a spike in prices of agricultural inputs but not changes in the extent of societal cooperation.
format	Working Paper
author	Ayenew, Ashenafi Belayneh
author_facet	Ayenew, Ashenafi Belayneh
author_sort	Ayenew, Ashenafi Belayneh
title	Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia
title_short	Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia
title_full	Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia
title_fullStr	Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed	Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia
title_sort	welfare impact of hosting refugees in ethiopia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/895691617713103514/Welfare-Impact-of-Hosting-Refugees-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35408
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Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia

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