Ghassan Baliki

The COVID-19 pandemic and food security: Micro-level evidence from Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Mozambique

Damir Esenaliev, Ghassan Baliki, Mekdim D. Regassa, Milena Tzvetkova, Monika Schreiner, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz

The COVID-19 pandemic caused extensive food insecurity in low-income countries. However, most studies rely on aggregate-level exposure measures, overlooking individual-level heterogeneity and introducing measurement errors […]

Cash and Cohesion in Crisis: On the Impacts of Anticipatory Cash Transfers in IDP Camps in South Sudan during Floods

Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Jan Elfes, Tilman Brück

Households living in humanitarian settings face extreme vulnerability to adverse shocks. Cash transfers can reduce this vulnerability and enhance household welfare. However, the potential of […]

Work permits for refugees as social protection during polycrises: Evidence from refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ghassan Baliki, Piero Ronzani, Sarah Fenzl, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz

This paper studies the social protection of refugees during a pandemic. A pandemic adds to the many existing challenges refugees face, creating a dangerous polycrisis. […]

Gendered effects of climate and conflict shocks on food security in Sudan and the mitigating role of social protection

Aysegül Kayaoglu, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück

Climate change and violent conflict are defining challenges of our time. However, it is not yet understood how they interact in shaping human welfare and […]

The impacts of armed conflict on human development: a review of the literature

Alexa Timlick, Anneli Eriksson, Ashok Swain, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Christopher Rauh, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Ghassan Baliki, Hanne Fjelde, Hannes Mueller, Håvard Hegre, Ida Rudolfsen, Johan von Schreeb, Jonathan Hall, Maxine R. Leis, Nina von Uexkull, Paola Vesco, Phaidon T. B. Vassiliou, Stefan Döring, Tilman Brück

The detrimental impacts of wars on human development are well documented across research domains, from public health to micro-economics. However, these impacts are studied in […]

How to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian and conflict settings

Aysegül Kayaoglu, Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Melodie Al Daccache, Tilman Brück

Methodological, ethical and practical challenges make it difficult to use experimental and rigorous quasi-experimental approaches to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian emergencies and conflict settings […]

Conducting (Long-term) Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian and Conflict Settings: Evidence from a complex agricultural intervention in Syria

Aysegül Kayaoglu, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück

The number of vulnerable people in humanitarian emergencies worldwide is increasing due to the rising frequency and intensity of risk exposure. At the same time, […]

Violent conflict moderates food security impacts of agricultural asset transfers in Syria: A heterogeneity analysis using machine learning

Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück

Agricultural interventions are one of the key policy tools to strengthen the food security of households living in conflict settings. Yet, given the complex nature […]

Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application

Ghassan Baliki, Neil Ferguson, Sindu W. Kebede, Tilman Brück

We explore the micro-foundations of fragility by discussing how to measure the exposure to fragility at the individual level. We focus on two notions that […]