methods to Egypt in 2013. Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions focusing on the poor correspond to the most …

. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and … and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti …

The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on …, agricultural, and economic policies in Egypt together with the structural aspects of the food subsidy policies are discussed and … crisis ; Egypt …

for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. We find growing trends of vulnerable employment, particularly for youth cohorts …. Especially in Egypt and Tunisia, children of poorer and lesseducated parents start out in vulnerable jobs and are unlikely to …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … engage in long-distance migration-if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating grooms. Guided by a model … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be …

migration. The effect of rebelocracy is driven mostly by the provision of public goods by non-state armed actors. While this …

This paper investigates the impact of migration of male household heads on the autonomy of their spouses. Using panel … endogeneity inherent in the relationship using past migration as the instrument and carefully paying attention to the role of … remittances. We find consistent evidence that male migration increases female self-determination and decision-making power, and …