Does granting refugee status to family-reunified women improve their integration?
研究比较了家庭团聚女性获得难民身份与仅持有家庭团聚身份的影响，发现难民身份改善了她们的经济融入、提高了离婚概率并降低了遭受暴力的风险。
In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women’s residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) Design, I document that granting asylum to family-reunified women improves their economic integration, increases the probability of divorce and decreases their risk of being victims of violence. I find significant impacts on victimization and economic integration regardless of whether the woman remains married or not. • Immigrant women more often hold family-reunification status than immigrant men. • I estimate the impact of having refugee status compared with family reunification. • Refugee status improves economic integration of family-reunified women. • Refugee status reduces the probability of intimate partner violence.