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typically protect against shocks in the male sphere of economic activity. Often overlooked are women, the particularities of … that it directly addresses women's risk and is sold in units that are commensurate with women's expenditure … Kenya. Twenty-four percent of previously subsidized households that received the novel contractual formulation purchased …
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sector and address high levels of unemployment, particularly among women and the youth. This paper explores how one such … doubled the share of women in treated firms. Importantly, we find that these short-term effects persisted for at least three …
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family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …
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We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff reductions across industries associated with the BTA...
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Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas. We exploit exogenous variation in emigration from Italian local labor markets to show that between 2008 and 2015 larger emigration flows reduced firm creation. The decline...
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In many countries of the world the co-residence of young adults aged 25-34 with their parents is not uncommon and in some countries the savings rates of these age groups exceed those of the middle-aged contrary to the standard model of life-cycle savings. In this paper we examine the role of...
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