Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leaders, and Development in Origin Countries

We are grateful to Roberto Mendoza and Gaspar Arias for excellent research assistant support and to Leah Boustan, José Morales-Arilla, Salvador Traettino, Maria Esther Caballero, Vincenzo DiMaro, Daniel Pereira, Carolina Mejía, Jose Luis Espinoza, Pablo Querubín, Margaret Peters, Daniel Ortega, Juan Vargas, Javier Romero, Carlos Rodríguez, Mark Thomas, and Dorothy Kronick for suggestions. We also thank participants at seminars at Oxford University, NOVA University, Bocconi University, the University of Turin, George Washington University, Villanova University, the University of Pittsburgh, John Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, EAFIT University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Paris School of Economics, Humans-LACEA, LISER, University of Rochester, 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, ESOC, and World Bank, IDB and IMF seminars for their feedback. Rozo acknowledges support from the Research Support Budget of the World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank, the governments they represent, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• November 7, 2024