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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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Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives' labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a national...
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We study how large shocks impact individuals' skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive increase in online skilling, and demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as telework,...
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of an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino women working as domestic workers (DWs) by their household …
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The COVID-19 pandemic as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had profound effects on the global energy landscape, with some of the longer-lasting effects still unfolding. This paper discusses how these events have reshaped the supply side of the global oil market by focusing on...
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Billions of women still face legal barriers to economic inclusion, yet it is unclear whether lifting these barriers is … - the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training …. Two years later, women in the treatment group are 61% more likely to drive, 19% more likely to leave the house …
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The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …
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incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …
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Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …
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