Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with … to relax human capital constraints for women by offering vocational, business and life skills training in 30 villages in …