East and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. The first part highlights various channels through which public … infrastructure has both flow and stock effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a stock effect in Jordan and Tunisia. But …

of the largest gender disparities. It exploits the massive roll-out of mobile broadband technology in Jordan between 2010 … and 2016 to identify the effect of internet adoption on labor force participation. Using panel data at the individual … level with rich information on labor market outcomes, internet use and gender-biased social norms, the article finds that …

productivity in Colombia. It estimates total factor productivity for the Colombian manufacturing sector using a method that assumes … a law of motion where total factor productivity evolves according to an autoregressive process of order 1 as well as … the labor demand of different workers, controlling for total factor productivity, capital, and wages. To address the …

principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with …

economic institutions from the surge of refugees from the First Gulf War. The surge of refugees to Jordan in 1990?1991 was … massive and equal to 10 percent of Jordan's population in 1990. Importantly, these refugees were able to have a large and … quirk in Jordanian law. The refugee surge was the main mechanism by which Jordan's economic institutions improved in the …

governorates of Jordan. The social norms measures are disaggregated into thematic clusters, empirical and normative expectations …

mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset … Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth fixed …

Facing a fiscal crisis, Jordan initiated substantial petroleum subsidy reforms in 2012. The government has also long … factor in the successful implementation of reforms in Jordan …

Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic …