This paper reviews some key contributions to econometric analysis of human fertility in the last 20 years, with special … fertility. Structural models that embed causal mechanisms explicitly are better suited for this objective. We start with a … description of the subject matter, including a brief review of existing theories of fertility behaviour and a detailed discussion …

Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration …

back home. We test the predictions of the model using data from Egypt. We find that, even after controlling for the …

Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … countries' real exchange rate misalignments during the past three decades. While Egypt experienced periods of substantial …

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim … societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt …

-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support …

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …

Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted … time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions relates to gender and social class. We demonstrate that youth today … attainment. Social class is playing an increasing role in determining the success of the transition from school to work in Egypt …

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during …