We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three … of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously … relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no …

of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …

dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects' willingness to share income with a worse-off partner both in a setting where …

context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …

areas in April-August 2020 by 7% overall and by 74% for rural women, over baseline employment rate. These cushioning effects … strengthened as the mobility restrictions eased and were larger for women who were less mobile and less skilled. Our results …