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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

News
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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

The Economist

01.17.23

A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain around 1750? Scholars are not sure, but research, including from Pearson Institute Director James A Robinson, is helping shed light on the answer. The Economist compiled multiple research studies helping expand our knowledge. (Paywall). 

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U Chicago

01.13.23

Professor Roger Myerson Releases New Paper on International State Building

The most significant oversight in building foundations of democracy has been putting thoughtful consideration into the relationship between local and national politics, as evidenced by American state-building exercises in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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SocArXiv

01.12.23

Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago

Chris Blattman and coauthors released new research on the efficacy of the READI Chicago program, which engages at-risk men with paid economic opportunities, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Utilizing a randomized control trial, the data shows that participants were 64% less likely than their peers to be arrested for shooting or a homicide.

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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