Colette Salemi
@csalemi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria. Environment & Development Applied Micro using GIS and household data. I mainly study refugee displacement and clean technology adoption. PhD in Applied Economics, UMN 2022. www.colettesalemi.ca
We did a write-up on our recent work about perceived labor market competition and out-group attitudes in East African refugee-hosting contexts! And VoxDev ran it!
🆕 How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees?
Today on VoxDev w/ Julie Bousquet (UNHCR), Anna Gasten (University of Göttingen), Mark Marvin Kadigo (UAntwerp), Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain) & Colette Salemi (University of Victoria): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Today on VoxDev w/ Julie Bousquet (UNHCR), Anna Gasten (University of Göttingen), Mark Marvin Kadigo (UAntwerp), Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain) & Colette Salemi (University of Victoria): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees?
Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia suggests that host prejudice against refugees increases when refugees are perceived as direct job competitors, but not necessarily when actual competition exists.
voxdev.org
June 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We did a write-up on our recent work about perceived labor market competition and out-group attitudes in East African refugee-hosting contexts! And VoxDev ran it!
Reposted by Colette Salemi
There is no scientific evidence for any meaningful climate benefits of "grass-fed" beef, as many people, including myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, have long been saying. This news study in PNAS further strengthens this point.
newrepublic.com/article/1637...
newrepublic.com/article/1637...
March 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There is no scientific evidence for any meaningful climate benefits of "grass-fed" beef, as many people, including myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, have long been saying. This news study in PNAS further strengthens this point.
newrepublic.com/article/1637...
newrepublic.com/article/1637...
If you're interested in attitudes towards refugees and how they relate to perceptions of migrants and job competition, I hope you check out our new paper 👇. This was a super interesting and important project undertaken by an awesome team.
My paper with Julie Bousquet, Anna Gasten, @jfmaystadt.bsky.social, & @csalemi.bsky.social published today in #JournalofDevelopmentEconomics
📖 Read for free until May 9: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ko56_6wyK...
@iobua.bsky.social
#Refugeehosting #LaborMarkets #VignetteExperiment #Ethiopia #Uganda
📖 Read for free until May 9: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ko56_6wyK...
@iobua.bsky.social
#Refugeehosting #LaborMarkets #VignetteExperiment #Ethiopia #Uganda
March 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you're interested in attitudes towards refugees and how they relate to perceptions of migrants and job competition, I hope you check out our new paper 👇. This was a super interesting and important project undertaken by an awesome team.
What compels governments to license occupations? My husband Jason Hicks and his stellar team have been pouring so much thought and care into this history/political economy project for years. I am so excited to see their WP out in NBER! www.nber.org/papers/w33580
March 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What compels governments to license occupations? My husband Jason Hicks and his stellar team have been pouring so much thought and care into this history/political economy project for years. I am so excited to see their WP out in NBER! www.nber.org/papers/w33580
We are reading Fenizia and Saggio's NBER WP on organized crime this week for Honors class, and hot dang this paper is cool. They demonstrate meaningful development gains after municipal governments are purged in response to suspected mafia activity. It's out in AER www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia
(July 2024) - This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian...
www.aeaweb.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We are reading Fenizia and Saggio's NBER WP on organized crime this week for Honors class, and hot dang this paper is cool. They demonstrate meaningful development gains after municipal governments are purged in response to suspected mafia activity. It's out in AER www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Geocoding addresses in British Columbia in R and I am off to a rouggggggh start 🤣
February 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Geocoding addresses in British Columbia in R and I am off to a rouggggggh start 🤣
The resubmission is resubmitted!
a drag queen wearing a red dress and red earrings is making a face
ALT: a drag queen wearing a red dress and red earrings is making a face
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January 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The resubmission is resubmitted!
This is one month of food aid for one refugee in Kebribeyeh refugee camp in June 2022. Powdered milk, salt, split peas, cooking oil. From the field report of this 2022 WB/Fafo survey microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/ca...
January 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This is one month of food aid for one refugee in Kebribeyeh refugee camp in June 2022. Powdered milk, salt, split peas, cooking oil. From the field report of this 2022 WB/Fafo survey microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/ca...
I love working with our Hono(u)rs undergraduate thesis students. But deprogramming them from using passive voice has got me like
January 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I love working with our Hono(u)rs undergraduate thesis students. But deprogramming them from using passive voice has got me like
Where can I find more books like these? They're all fantastic reads for thinking about production, pollution, and regulation. I'm seeking out more.
January 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Where can I find more books like these? They're all fantastic reads for thinking about production, pollution, and regulation. I'm seeking out more.
A new dichotomous trope for talking about refugee hosting - as if "blessing or burden?" and "crisis or opportunity?" weren't ick enough...
December 6, 2024 at 1:23 AM
A new dichotomous trope for talking about refugee hosting - as if "blessing or burden?" and "crisis or opportunity?" weren't ick enough...
I am loving the newest R Leaflet base maps, particularly this Hard Rock Hallelujah one ❤️☠️
December 8, 2023 at 6:01 PM
I am loving the newest R Leaflet base maps, particularly this Hard Rock Hallelujah one ❤️☠️