The Political Economy of Decision Making Bias: An Analysis of Asylum Merit Hearings in U.S. Immigration Court

Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office

“…First, it contributes to the “refugee roulette” literature by analyzing the first microlevel dataset on a representative sample of asylum applications. Several studies have examined country‐level data and concluded that both humanitarian and strategic interests explain variation in acceptance rates (Fariss and Rottman 2009; Holzer, Schneider, and Widmer 2000; Keith, Holmes, and Miller 2013; Neumayer 2005; Rosenblum and Salehyan 2004; Rottman, Fariss, and Poe 2009; Salehyan and Rosenblum 2008; Schneider and Holzer 2002; Toshkov 2014). However, these country‐level analyses are merely suggestive since they do not account for the possibility that variation in the composition of asylum seekers between countries of origin could confound these results.…”