News Finding: 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.
Paper Finding: 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.
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. The algorithm assigned placements for refugees that they project would increase their chances of finding employment by roughly 40 to 70 percent compared with how the refugees actually fared, according to the new study, published in Science.
Paper Context: In Switzerland, for example, we find that the ability to speak French (i.e., among French-speaking African refugees) results in a larger payoff for refugees assigned to Frenchspeaking cantons than for those assigned to German-speaking cantons ( fig. 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.