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Rozo, Sarah Stillman"}],"title_statement":{"idno":"PP_JOR_2024_248","title":"Reproducibility package for Housing Subsidies for Refugees: Experimental Evidence on Life Outcomes and Social Integration in Jordan"},"production_date":"2024-12","abstract":"Refugees require assistance for basic needs like housing but local host communities may resent being excluded from that assistance, and there is limited quantitative evidence on this potential backlash. This study experimentally evaluates the effect of a housing assistance program for Syrian refugees in Jordan on both the recipients and their neighbors. The program offered full rental subsidies and landlord incentives for housing improvements, but saw only moderate uptake, in part due to landlord reluctance. The program improved short-run housing quality and lowered housing expenditures, but did not yield sustained economic benefits, partly due to redistribution of aid. The program unexpectedly led to a deterioration in child socio-emotional well-being, and also worsened Jordanian neighbors\u2019 social attitudes toward refugees. In all, housing subsidies had limited measurable benefits for refugee well-being while worsening social integration, highlighting the possible need for alternative forms of aid.","geographic_units":[{"name":"Jordan","code":"JOR","type":"Country"}],"keywords":[{"name":"Refugees"},{"name":"Housing"},{"name":"Forced Migration"},{"name":"Social Integration"}],"topics":[{"id":"D22","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","name":" Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ","url":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","parent_id":"D2","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel"},{"id":"J61","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","name":" Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ","url":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","parent_id":"J6","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel"},{"id":"O17","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","name":" Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements ","url":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","parent_id":"O1","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel"}],"language":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"data_statement":"All data is temporarily embargoed by the authors, expected to be made public in the future.","datasets":[{"name":"Survey datasets collected for \"Experimental Evidence on Life Outcomes and Social Integration in Jordan\"","note":"Source: The data was collected by the authors through surveys as part of a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) involving:\n2,870 Syrian refugee households; 2,146 neighboring host-community households. The data tracks outcomes across three survey rounds:\nMidline: During program implementation;\nEndline: Immediately after assistance delivery;\nFollow-up: 1.5 years post-assistance.\nThe data will be made available through the World Bank Microdata Library at a later time, after the paper's publication in a journal.\nA complete list of datasets is provided in the README file included in this package.","access_type":"Data is temporarily embargoed and not included in the reproducibility package"}],"software":[{"name":"Stata","version":"18 MP"},{"name":"R","version":"4.4.1"},{"name":"Python","version":"3.11.10"}],"scripts":[{"file_name":"PP_JOR_2024_248.zip","zip_package":"PP_JOR_2024_248.zip","title":"Reproducibility package (code) for Housing Subsidies for Refugees: Experimental Evidence on Life Outcomes and Social Integration in Jordan","date":"2024-12","dependencies":"All dependencies are stored in the ado folder and the renv.lock","notes":"Computational reproducibility verified by the Development Impact (DIME) Analytics team, World Bank."}],"repository_uri":[{"name":"Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank)","uri":"https:\/\/reproducibility.worldbank.org"}],"technology_environment":"Paper exhibits were reproduced on a computer with the following specifications:\n\u2013 OS: Windows 10 Enterprise\n\u2013 Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R CPU @ 2.90GHz   2.90 GHz  (2 processors)\n\u2013 Memory available: 32 GB\n\u2013 Software version: Stata 18 MP, R 4.4.1, Python 3.11.10","reproduction_instructions":"The data required for this replication package is **temporarily embargoed**. Once access has been granted, follow these steps to run this package:  \n1. Download the datasets and place in the appropriate folder.  \n2. Copy the contents of the `.env.template` file into a new file called `.env`.  \n3. Set the `DATA_PATH` variable in the `.env` file to the location of the data in your computer. \n4. Install the Stata `project` module. \n5. Set up the Stata project as specified on the README file. \n6. Open the RStudio project. \n7. Activate the renv environment. \n8. Open and run the R Scripts: `code\/R\/Fig3_PanelA.R` and `code\/R\/Fig3_PanelB.R`.\nAs the data is not included in the package the results obtained by the replicators are published in the folder `results`. 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The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.","license":[{"name":"Modified BSD3","uri":"https:\/\/opensource.org\/license\/bsd-3-clause\/"}],"contacts":[{"affiliation":"University of California Berkeley","name":"Mansi Kalra","email":"mkalra@berkeley.edu"},{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"reproducibility@worldbank.org"}]},"tags":[{"tag":"DOI"},{"tag":"Open code"},{"tag":"Restricted data"}],"schematype":"script"}