Publications

Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies: Introduction, Application, and Potential Use Cases
Web scraping, a technique for extracting data from web pages, has been in use for decades, yet its utilization in the field of …
Jasper Dag Tjaden
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How Much Do “Local Policies” Matter for Refugee Integration? An Analytical Model and Evidence from a Highly Decentralized Country
A growing number of studies have recently postulated a so-called local turn in the study of immigrant and refugee integration policy. A …
Jasper Dag Tjaden, Christoph Spörlein
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Experimental evidence on improving COVID-19 vaccine outreach among migrant communities on social media
Studies from several countries suggest that COVID-19 vaccination rates are lower among migrants compared to the general population. …
Jasper Dag Tjaden, Esther Haarmann, Nicolai Savaskan
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Risky journeys – Risk and decision-making among potential irregular migrants in Senegal and Guinea
This study contributes an empirical account based on two independently collected surveys in Senegal and Guinea. Consistent with …
Jasper Dag Tjaden
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Effectiveness of WhatsApp for Measuring Migration in Follow-Up Phone Surveys. Lessons from a Mode Experiment in Two Low-Income Countries during COVID Contact Restrictions
Phone surveys have increasingly become important data collection tools in developing countries, particularly in the context of sudden …
Felix Ndashimye, Oumarou Hebie, Jasper Dag Tjaden
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Raising Awareness About the Risk of Irregular Migration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Guinea
In response to mounting evidence of harm inflicted on irregular migrants along their journeys from West Africa to Europe, international …
Jasper Dag Tjaden, Horace Gninafon
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The effect of peer-to-peer risk information on potential migrants - Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Senegal
In response to mounting evidence on the dangers of irregular migration from Africa to Europe, the number of information campaigns which …
Jasper Dag Tjaden, Felipe Dunsch
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Measuring migration 2.0: a review of digital data sources
In response to mounting evidence on the dangers of irregular migration from Africa to Europe, the number of information campaigns which …
Jasper Dag Tjaden
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Corruption and the Desire to Leave Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Corruption as a Driver of Emigration Intentions
Whether and to what extent corruption drives emigration has received growing attention in the literature in recent years, yet the …
Daniel Auer, Friederike Römer, Jasper Dag Tjaden
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Linking Migration Intentions with Flows: Evidence and Potential Use
In the absence of reliable, internationally available migration flow data necessary for statistical forecasting, policymakers …
Jasper Dag Tjaden, Daniel Auer, Frank Laczko
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Ride with Me—Ethnic Discrimination, Social Markets, and the Sharing Economy
We study ethnic discrimination in the sharing economy using the example of online carpooling marketplaces. Based on a unique data set …
Jasper Dag Tjaden, Carsten Schwemmer, Menusch Khadjavi
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The optimism trap: Migrants’ educational choices in stratified education systems
Immigrant children’s ambitious educational choices have often been linked to their families’ high level of optimism and …
Jasper Dag Tjaden, Christian Hunkler
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Migrant Background and Access to Vocational Education in Germany: Self-Selection, Discrimination, or Both?
Germany’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector is the major channel for the integration of a growing number of students …
Jasper Dag Tjaden
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Setting the bar - An experimental investigation of immigration requirements
We examine determinants of immigration requirements in a public goods game experiment with endogenous groups. Initially, the game …
Menusch Khadjavi, Jasper Dag Tjaden
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