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Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

Harris Public Policy students visited Zaatari refugee camp as part of the 2018 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees leading NGO programming within the camp.

Ramin Kohanteb/The Pearson Institute

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VoxDev / 04.30.25

What Mobile Data Can Tell Us about Religion in Conflict Zones

Pearson Professor Oeindrila Dube and co-authors discuss their research measuring religious adherence with cell phone data in Afghanistan. 

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Kabul, Afghanistan
Harris News / 02.17.25

Research on Campaign to Eliminate Chagas Disease

Assistant Professor Eduardo Montero explores the results of a Chagas disease campaign in Brazil in new working paper. 

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Eduardo Montero Headshot
UChicago News / 12.05.24

Nobel Laureate Finds his ‘Calling’ in Studying the World

UChicago Professor James A. Robinson’s decades of research have shaped our understanding of economic inequality. 

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Professor Robinson in his home

VoxDev

03.11.24

How effective are monetary incentives to vote?

A recent article by Mariella Gonzales, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta, and Pearson Faculty Affiliate Luis Martinez  concluded monetary incentives have a positive effect on voting, but important caveats need to be considered. 

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The Pie: An Economics Podcast

03.05.24

From Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Political Economy of Latin America

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Luis Martinez joined the Becker Friedman Institute's "The Pie" podcast. 

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BBC

02.21.24

Afghanistan: Archaeological sites 'bulldozed for looting'

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Gil Stein commented on research that found that the systematic looting of archeological sites in Afghanistan has continued under Taliban rule. 

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Western Wall

Harris Public Policy students visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem as part of the 2019 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Israel and the West Bank.

Ramin Kohanteb / The Pearson Institute