Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/225638 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ILE Working Paper Series No. 41
Publisher: 
University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE), Hamburg
Abstract: 
An unprecedented number of refugees from Syria has sought refuge in both the Middle East and Europe since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011. We analyze the level of altruism and risk-seeking among Syrian civil war victims in Jordan. We find systematic variations in their revealed levels of altruism and their willingness to accept risk: feeling as if having no future coincides with both more egoistic and more risk-seeking behavior. Refugees' behavioral responses and their sense of no future correlate with their current personal living experiences. Our findings suggest that both the sense of no future and the accompanying behavioral responses are primarily associated with miserable current living conditions rather than with experiences directly related to the civil war in Syria. Policy implications of these findings seem straightforward: Policy makers need to provide additional assistance for facilitating family reunion.
Subjects: 
experiments
altruism
risk-seeking
psychological distress
migration
civil war
JEL: 
C92
D64
D81
D91
F22
H56
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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