This study shows that children are the poorest in refugee settings
Refugee children are three times more likely to be poor than adults, while as many as two of three refugee children are extremely poor in Kenya and Uganda.
Prior to joining the GSEM-University of Geneva as a Professor of Economics, Giacomo De Giorgi was Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Stanford University (2006-13), Visiting Professor at UC-Berkeley (2010-11) and a Wesley Mitchell's Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2012-13). From 2013 he was Research Professor of ICREA-MOVE, Barcelona GSE and UAB and from 2014-16, Senior Economist at the NY-Fed.
Since 2018, De Giorgi has been Visiting Professor at UC-Irvine, Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association since 2015. He is a member of BREAD, CEPR, and IPA and a former member of the NBER and in the Spring of 2020, he co-launched the Virtual Development Economics Seminar Series (VDEV/Channel).
His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the AEJ: Applied, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal and and the Review of Economic Dynamics, among other outlets.
De Giogio also teaches Development Economics, Labour Economics and Advanced Econometrics.
