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Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …
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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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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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nationally representative sample of young married respondents in Egypt. Using a variety of estimation techniques, the results …
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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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This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during …
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transport policies. We randomly assign large price reductions on Uber in Egypt over a 3-month period and collect comprehensive …
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-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support …
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back home. We test the predictions of the model using data from Egypt. We find that, even after controlling for the …
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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 …
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