This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …

technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The … results show that improving communication technology increases female economic participation with the following consistent …

Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage …