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Impact of Cash Assistance to Venezuelan Migrants on Resilience to the Negative Impacts of COVID-19

  • Funded by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Innovations for Poverty Action
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Funder

    Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Innovations for Poverty Action

  • Principal Investigator

    Jeremy Weinstein, Duncan Lawrence, Jens Hainmueller, Beza Tesfaye
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  • Research Location

    Colombia

  • Lead Research Institution

    Immigration Policy Lab (IPL), Mercy Corps

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Internally Displaced and Migrants

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

Cash assistance is a major component of the humanitarian response to refugee and migration crises around the globe, but we have limited evidence on its impact on resilience and migration, especially in the current context of mobility restrictions due to a public health crisis. In partnership with Mercy Corps, the Immigration Policy Lab is using a novel technology-assisted, partially automated WhatsApp survey methodology to evaluate an ongoing cash assistance program for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia. Researchers will evaluate the impact of cash on household resilience and return migration in the face of a global pandemic. The regression discontinuity design is based on a vulnerability score which distinguishes households that will and will not receive monthly cash assistance and we will conduct follow up surveys at three, six, and nine month intervals.