Publications

Peer reviewed papers

Bousquet, Julie, Anna Gasten, Mark Marvin Kadigo, Jean-Francois Maystadt, & Colette Salemi. (2025). "Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia." Journal of Development Economics 175.

Dampha, Nfamara K., Colette Salemi, Steve Polasky, Amare Gebre Egziabher, and Wendy Rappeport. (2025). "Refugees and host communities’ vulnerability to climate and disaster risks in Rwanda; Frontiers in Climate 7.

Bell, Christopher, Ekaterina Rhodes, Zoe Long, & Colette Salemi. (2024). "Do economic trade-offs matter in climate policy support? Survey evidence from the United Kingdom and Australia." Energy Policy 197.

Assaad, Ragui, Caroline Krafft, & Colette Salemi. (2023). "Socioeconomic status and the changing nature of school-to-work transitions in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 76(4).

Johnson, Justin A., Uris Lantz Baldos, Erwin Corong, Thomas Hertel, Stephen Polasky, Raffaello Cervigni, Toby Roxburgh, Giovanni Ruta, Colette Salemi, & Sumil Thakrar. (2023). "Investing in nature can improve equity and economic returns." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(27).

Dampha, Nfamara K., Colette Salemi, Wendy Rappeport, Stephen Polasky, & Amare Gebre Egziabher. (2022). "Climate resilience development in Rwanda: Evaluating refugees and host populations’ vulnerability to climate-induced risks " Forced Migration Review 69.

Johnson, Justin A. & Colette Salemi. (2022). "Agents on a landscape: Simulating spatial and temporal interactions in economic and ecological systems." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10.

Salemi, Colette. (2021). "Refugee camps and deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Development Economics 152.

Bloem, Jeffrey R. & Colette Salemi. (2021). "COVID-19 and conflict " World Development 140.

Pellicier, Miquel, Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, & Colette Salemi. (2021). "Grievances or skills? The effect of education on youth attitudes and political participation in Egypt and Tunisia " International Political Science Review 43(2).

Working papers

Anti, Sebastian and Colette Salemi. (2025). "Hungry Hosts? Refugee Camps and Host Community Child Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa ".

Obleo Demandre, C. Austin Davis, and Colette Salemi (2025). "Greenspace Proximity and Refugee Mental Health."

Fall, Cheikh, Amy Damon and Colette Salemi. (2025). "Farmers’ Responses to Desert Locust Swarms. "

Salemi, Colette (2025). "Rohingya Refugee Camps and Land Cover Change in Bangladesh.

Anti, Sebastian, Colette Salemi, Jonathan Rigberg, Karishma Silva, and Johannes Hoogeveen. (2025). "A New Expanded Dataset to Study Refugee Camps in Sub-Saharan Africa 1999–2024."

Rizk, Reham and Colette Salemi. (2020). "Children of War: Conflict and Child Welfare in Iraq. "

Anti, Sebastian, Salemi, Colette, and Katie Wilson. (2020). "Introducing the African Refugee Dataset 1999-2016."

Reports and book chapters

Assaad, Ragui, Abdelaziz AlSharawy & Salemi, Colette (2021). "Is the Egyptian Economy Creating Good Jobs? Job Creation and Economic Vulnerability from 1998 to 2018." In The Egyptian Labor Market: A Focus on Gender and Economic Vulnerability

Salemi, Colette, Jay Bowman, and Jennifer Compton. (2018). "Services for Syrian refugee children and youth in Jordan: Forced displacement, foreign aid, and vulnerability." Economic Research Forum Working Paper Series 1188

Krafft, Caroline, Maia Sieverding, Colette Salemi, and Caitlyn Keo (2018). "Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Demographics, Livelihoods, Education, and Health." In The Jordanian Labor Market: Between Fragility and Resilience.

Rizk, Reham and Salemi, Colette (2018). "Own Account Workers in Jordan: Profile and Work Characteristics." In The Jordanian Labor Market: Between Fragility and Resilience.

Assaad, Ragui and Salemi, Colette (2018). "The Structure and Evolution of Employment from 2010 to 2016 in Jordan." In The Jordanian Labor Market: Between Fragility and Resilience.

In progress and emerging projects

Angela Daly, Donn Feir, Barry Watson, and Colette Salemi. "Indigenous Canadians’ pollution exposure and its health consequences."

We are matching pollution release spatial data with population data from Statistics Canada to examine levels and trends in pollution exposure for Indigenous Canadians. Future efforts will match this exposure data to health outcomes to further investigate dispararities in morbidity and mortality.

Obleo Demandre, Nathaniel Hope-Tucker, and Colette Salemi. "Trends in Canadian Industrial Toxic Release Abatement."

We examine descriptive trends in toxic release across provinces, industries, and over time using the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI). The study carefully considers changes in NPRI reporting requirements and focuses on Critical Air Contaminants .

Mike Janes, Colette Salemi, and Marija Terry-Brownhill. "Willingness-to-pay for residential heat pumps in British Columbia."

We are applying hedonic regression techniques to 20+ years of MLS listing data for the Greater Victoria Real Estate catchment area to estimate Victorians’ willingness-to-pay for residential heat pump technology. We are examining variation by geographic area, unit type, and over time..

Sebastian Anti, Abubakr Ayesh, and Colette Salemi "The forest cover impacts of improved cookstoves."

We are evaluating the impacts of the Tubeho Neza large-scale improved cookstove rollout on Rwandan forest cover (2014-present). The Tubeho Neza program, undertaken by DelAgua Corp, has delivered over 1.5 million stoves to Rwandan households to date. Our study uses satellite data to examine changes on forest canopy cover in response to rollouts at the local (cell/village) level. The study will be further enriched through qualitative data collection (August 2025) with participant households, as well as insights from government and nonprofit key informants. We thank DelAgua Corp. for partnering with us as well as fieldwork support services from NjordFrey.

Sebastian Anti, Colette Salemi, Jonathan Rigberg, Karishma Silva, and Johannes Hoogeveen (2025). "A New Expanded Dataset to Study Refugee Camps in sub-Saharan Africa 1999-2024."

Our team is augmenting and expanding on the African Refugee Dataset (ARD) that Sebastian Anti and I began developing in 2018. Our objective is to release the data publicly, along with a codebook and a working paper, at the end of July 2025. We are grateful for the support of the World Bank with this endeavor as well as our excellent RA Jonathan Rigberg.