News Finding: It turned out that refugees with particular backgrounds or skills achieved better outcomes in some locations than others.
Paper Finding: Various mapping functions can be used.
News Context: They found that the refugees' eventual economic self-sufficiency depended on a combination of their individual characteristics, such as education level and knowledge of English, and where they were resettled within the country. It turned out that refugees with particular backgrounds or skills achieved better outcomes in some locations than others. In 2016 alone, about 65.6 million people were forced to flee their homes.
Paper Context: A separate model was fit for subgroups of refugees assigned to each location, thus yielding different models for each location and allowing for the discovery of refugee/location synergies. Various mapping functions can be used. Our preferred case-level metric was the predicted probability that at least one refugee in the case would find employment at the location in question.