Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• “The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions.” Forthcoming. With Ala’ Alrababa’h, Marine Casalis, Dominik Hangartner, and Jeremy Weinstein. British Journal of Political Science. 
  • Replication data
• “Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the US Refugee Ban.” 2021. With Vasil Yasenov. American Political Science Review. 
  • Online Appendix
  • Replication data
• “Does Aid Reduce Anti-Refugee Violence? Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.” 2020. With Christian Lehmann. American Political Science Review. 
  • Online Appendix
  • Replication data
• “Refugees, Mobilization, and Humanitarian Aid: Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon.” 2019. With Christian Lehmann. Journal of Conflict Resolution.
  • Online Appendix
  • Replication data

Working Papers

• “Refugee Networks, Cooperation, and Resource Access.”
  • Online Appendix
  • Audio vignettes: Audio and subtitles
• “Mobile Phone-based Panel Surveys for Mobile Populations.” With Ala’ Alrababa’h, Marine Casalis, Dominik Hangartner, Stefan Wehrli, and Jeremy Weinstein.
• “Are Cash Transfers Effective Humanitarian Aid in Refugee Crises?”

Other Publications

• “University of California PhD Pay is Among the Lowest in the U.S. After Accounting for Cost of Living.” 2022. Research note.
• “Back-and-Forth Movements of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.” 2022. UNHCR report. With Rosa Vidarte.
• “Returning Home? Conditions in Syria, Not Lebanon, Drive the Return Intentions of Syrian Refugees.” IPA–IPL Policy brief. With Ala’ Alrababa‘h, Marine Casalis, Dominik Hangartner, Jeremy Weinstein, and Nasser Yassin. September 2020.
• “Before the Field.” Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences: A Guide to Human and Digital Security in Hostile Environments.  With Jannis Grimm, Kevin Koehler, Ellen Lust, Ilyas Saliba, Isabell Schierenbeck, Sylvain Lefebvre, and Francesco Strazzari. SAGE Publications. 2020.
• “The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in the Syrian Refugee Crisis.” APSA MENA Politics, Newsletter of the MENA Politics Section of APSA, Volume 2, Issue 1. With Lama Mourad. 2019.
• Syrians in the Middle East: The Lives and Livelihoods of Refugees and Their Hosts. The World Bank. With Nandini Krishnan, Tara Vishwanath, Monica Biradavolu, Kevin Carey, Matthew Groh, Meghan Lucas, Nethra Palaniswamy, Flavio Russo Riva, Dhiraj Sharma, Thomas Ginn and Jacob Goldston. Internal World Bank Report.
• “‘Giving More’ Through Direct Cash Aid.” Refugees Deeply. 2016.
• “Giving Better: Lessons from Cash Grants for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.” AUB IFI Policy Brief. Also published in Arabic. 2015.
• “Impact Evaluation of the 2014-15 Winter Cash Assistance Programme for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.” UNHCR. With Khalil El Asmar. 2015.
• “Impact Evaluation of a Cash-Transfer Programme for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.” Field Exchange. With Christian Lehmann. 2014.
• “Emergency Economies: The Impact of Cash Assistance in Lebanon.” International Rescue Committee report. With Christian Lehmann. 2014.
• Book review of Noel Brehony’s Yemen Divided and Christopher Boucek and Marina Ottaway’s Yemen on the Brink. International Affairs. May 2012.
• “An American Dream: The Broken Iraqi Refugee Resettlement Program and How to Fix It.” Harvard Kennedy School Review. Spring 2010.