This is an exciting opportunity to do a fully-funded PhD on Refugee Economies in Antwerp, Belgium. Olivier was an amazing supervisor during my Masters and I highly recommend working with him!

“40% of refugees show symptoms of depression compared to host communities,” Antonia Johanna Sophie Delius, Economic Consultant, World Bank on ‘Understanding Psychosocial Wellbeing in Displacement Contexts: Early Results from a Representative Panel in Kenya.’ #AES2023 #refugees

Excited that my paper with Olivier Sterck has been published in the Journal of Development Economics! We study the impacts of a restricted cash transfer on the businesses and markets where the transfer is spent. Link here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev…

🌟NEW Paper 'Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya' by the CSAE's Antonia Delius (Department of Economics, Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (ODID & RefugeeStudiesCentre). 📚Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev…

🌟CSAE Publications Spotlights at #OxCSAE2024 'Cash transfers & micro-enterprise performance' by the CSAE's Antonia Delius (Department of Economics, Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (ODID) et al., published in Journal of Development Economics. 📚csae.ox.ac.uk/publications-s…

Please RT: I'm very excited to launch Malengo Inc.'s new Kenya–Germany Vocational Training Program for Refugees! We provide one year of intensive language training in Kenya, followed by 1–3 years of vocational training in Germany to become e.g. a nurse. 1/3 malengo.org

Stefano DellaVigna Eva Vivalt Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Theresa Beltramo and co-authors would love your thoughts on the impact training + cash programs have on the economic/psychological well-being of refugees! socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/afc5… 📚Field: Econ ⏱️Duration: 15 min 📅Closes: Aug 4

THREAD: I. 📊 Just launched! World Bank 🇰🇪 Poverty and Equity Team presents a new dashboard with detailed data on forced displacement in Kenya. Check out the facts and figures here: worldbank.org/en/data/intera…

The K-LSRH is the first nationally comparable survey of registered refugees and hosts in Kenya, offering a unique opportunity to inform the socioeconomic integration of refugees, including the GOK proposed shift from camps to integrated settlements. #RefugeesandHostsKE

🌟NEW Episode 13 of the CSAE Research #Podcasts! Cash Transfers & Micro-Enterprise Performance in a Refugee Camp in Kenya. 🎙️Antonia Delius (Department of Economics, Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (ODID RefugeeStudiesCentre Refugee Economies Programme) csae.ox.ac.uk/cash-transfers…

"It's an increase of 175%, that's a massive increase in business revenues," Olivier Sterck & Antonia Delius discuss how a cash transfer programme affects local businesses in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, in the latest CSAE Research Podcast. 👇 🎧csae.ox.ac.uk/cash-transfers…

Work with us at Malengo Inc.! We're a nonprofit that helps students from low-income countries to study abroad. For our 250 African students in Germany, we're looking for a program manager with a focus on careers and job placement. Details here — please share! malengo.org/programm-manag…

Listen to the CSAE Research Podcasts series to find out more about CSAE researchers' work with cash transfers in Kenya. 🔸Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance in a Refugee Camp in Kenya 🔸General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers in Kenya csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-podcasts

In a new article for VoxDev, Antonia Delius & Olivier Sterck use evidence from Kenya to show how businesses profiteer from humanitarian cash transfers through price hikes: voxdev.org/topic/firms/bu…

🌟NEW CSAE MPhil Scholarship at Jesus College. This scholarship is open to candidates applying for the MPhil in Economics Department of Economics, Oxford at the University of Oxford. Candidates must be nationals of an African country. ⏰Deadline: 28 January 2025 ℹ️csae.ox.ac.uk/scholarships