Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced
Tens of millions of individuals are displaced due to violence, and most are hosted by other households in their home countries. In their paper for the
Household in Conflict Network Peter van der Windt, Leonid Peisakhin and Nik Stoop discuss what leads people to host the forcibly displaced. To explore the correlates of hosting, they used survey data from 1,504 households in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, measured household characteristics prior to the arrival of displaced persons, and implemented an experiment. They found that households of higher empathy were more likely to host in the ten-month period following the survey. There is no evidence that ethnicity, religiosity or wealth affect hosting behavior. They conclude that it is difficult to increase hosting propensity in the longer term (4+ months) through simple interventions.
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