Using a staggered DID-Design with individual level panel data (#SOEP DIW Berlin), we show that contact with foreigners lead to a persistent reduction of worries about immigration. Stronger effects for right-leaning persons.

1/6 Are refugees that have been (randomly) allocated to rural areas at an disadvantage for learning the German language? New Center for Open Science #PrePrint with Samir Khalil Universität Potsdam using DIW Berlin @iab_news BAMF survey data osf.io/x5ar9/ ...

New Research: Is There a Rural Penalty in Language Acquisition? Evidence From Germany's Refugee Allocation Policy: Emerging evidence has highlighted the important role of local contexts for integration trajectories… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #Sociology #SocialSciences #Humanities

#Asylum seekers in Germany are randomly allocated to a location. In this Frontiers - Sociology, we asked whether being located in a rural area disadvantages asylum seekers in terms of learning German frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Sind Geflüchtete, die auf ländliche Regionen verteilt werden, beim Deutschlernen benachteiligt? Nein, sagen Jasper Tjaden, Ulrich Kohler (Universität Potsdam) & Samir Khalil aus unserer Abteilung #Integration in ihrem neuen Beitrag für Frontiers - Sociology. 📰 👉frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

So proud of my twitterless postdoc Alejandra Rodriguez Sanchez for her paper on search-and-rescue in the Med published today in Nature Scientific Reports / with Universität Potsdam, Ramona Rischke at DeZIM-Institut, Julian Wucherpfennig at Hertie School, stefano maria iacus at Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science nature.com/articles/s4159…

📣 "How Reception Centers Affect the Integration of Asylum Seekers and Recognized Refugees" by Samir Khalil, researcher at the integration department & Jasper Tjaden provides key policy insights: type and duration of housing significantly impact integration. ⬇️