Intergenerational costs of allocating refugees randomly

"Existing research on the integration of refugees has focused on the impact on the refugees themselves. This column uses the random allocation of refugees in Switzerland to show how allocation has significant effects even on future generations. Compared to children of refugees allocated to regions with an unfamiliar language, the children of mothers allocated to a familiar language environment have a higher birth weight on average, which is a predictor of outcomes including educational attainment, income, and health later in life. (...)"