We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...

This study considers covered and uncovered wage earners and the self-employed. The analysis is carried out for men and women workers separately. 1994 Turkish Household Expenditure Survey is used first to examine how individuals are selected into the covered and uncovered wage earner and the...

This study focused on Sudanese women working in food and beverages business in urban markets of Khartoum State. It aimed at identifying the reasons behind women's work, the constraining and enhancing factors that affect their performance as entrepreneurs, beside their attitude and strategies in...

This paper uses rich individual-level data to understand how a nationwide formalization program (the MEI program) impacts men and women differently. The MEI program began in 2009 to reduce formalization costs for micro-entrepreneurs. The identification strategy exploits the staggered rollout of...