journal articleEconomic impact of refugeesproceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america (pnas) | 2016 | by J. Edward Taylor, Mateusz J. Filipski, Mohamad Alloush, Anubhab Gupta, Ruben Irvin Rojas Valdes and Ernesto Gonzalez-Estrada The number of refugees displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters is on the rise.