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Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling

Elsayed, Ahmed - 2020

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

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Taking the Easy Way Out : How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

Heckman, James J.; LaFontaine, Paul; Rodriguez, Pedro L. - 2021

We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...

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Wage Returns to Human Capital Resulting from an Extra Year of Primary School : Evidence from Egypt

Assaad, Ragui A.; Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2023

In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which …

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Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt : Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Tansel, Aysıt - 2018

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

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Inter-Spousal Communication in Consanguineous Marriages : Evidence from Egypt

Rajan, Aastha - 2018

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

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Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment : Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Bargain, Olivier - 2018

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes...

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Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth About the Arab Spring

Fakih, Ali - 2019

Egyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, yearning for changes in the political system and for better economic conditions. This paper investigates the perceptions of young Egyptians about the AS. The empirical analysis uses a bivariate ordered probit model to...

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Excluded Generation : The Growing Challenges of Labor Market Insertion for Egyptian Youth

Assaad, Ragui A. - 2017

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 …

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Empowering Women Under Social Constraints : Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt

Elsayed, Ahmed - 2018

rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …

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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?

Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …

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