Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …

Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted … time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions relates to gender and social class. We demonstrate that youth today … attainment. Social class is playing an increasing role in determining the success of the transition from school to work in Egypt …

nationally representative sample of young married respondents in Egypt. Using a variety of estimation techniques, the results …

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during …

transport policies. We randomly assign large price reductions on Uber in Egypt over a 3-month period and collect comprehensive …

-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support …

back home. We test the predictions of the model using data from Egypt. We find that, even after controlling for the …

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim … societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt …