Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results

This paper contributes to the existing literature in several important ways. The existing literature on the impact of childcare subsidies is from contexts with relatively higher rates of female labor force participation. This work is thus an important test of whether alleviating care responsibilitie...

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Main Authors:	Caria, Stefano, Crepon, Bruno, ElBehairy, Hala, Fadlalmawla, Noha, Krafft, Caroline, Nagy, Abdelrahman, Mottaghi, Lili, Zeitoun, Nahla, El Assiouty, Souraya
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Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099556408032227795/IDU04351d87c09e470446808cc90004c6187c47a http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37825

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spelling	okr-10986-378252022-08-05T16:07:23Z Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results Caria, Stefano Crepon, Bruno ElBehairy, Hala Fadlalmawla, Noha Krafft, Caroline Nagy, Abdelrahman Mottaghi, Lili Zeitoun, Nahla El Assiouty, Souraya This paper contributes to the existing literature in several important ways. The existing literature on the impact of childcare subsidies is from contexts with relatively higher rates of female labor force participation. This work is thus an important test of whether alleviating care responsibilities and reducing the opportunity cost of women working through childcare subsidies can increase women’s participation in contexts and populations with lower participation. Likewise, although there is a sizable body of literature on employment services interventions, there is less evidence on whether they can help married women with young children. Lastly, recognizing that women in Egypt face a multitude of employment constraints, our experiment tests whether a combination of employment services and childcare subsidies has important complementarities, by alleviating multiple constraints at the same time. This paper examines the impact of the interventions on job search outcomes for women 3-4 months after the baseline survey and assignment to treatment for approximately half the planned sample. The first midline survey examines specifically job search behaviors: reservation wages, reservation job quality, and job search effort. The authors also discuss take-up of the two interventions and contextualize take-up and outcomes with information on norms about women’s work and childcare. 2022-08-03T17:36:46Z 2022-08-03T17:36:46Z 2022-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099556408032227795/IDU04351d87c09e470446808cc90004c6187c47a http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37825 English en CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Knowledge Notes :: Africa Gender Policy Briefs Egypt, Arab Republic of
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description	This paper contributes to the existing literature in several important ways. The existing literature on the impact of childcare subsidies is from contexts with relatively higher rates of female labor force participation. This work is thus an important test of whether alleviating care responsibilities and reducing the opportunity cost of women working through childcare subsidies can increase women’s participation in contexts and populations with lower participation. Likewise, although there is a sizable body of literature on employment services interventions, there is less evidence on whether they can help married women with young children. Lastly, recognizing that women in Egypt face a multitude of employment constraints, our experiment tests whether a combination of employment services and childcare subsidies has important complementarities, by alleviating multiple constraints at the same time. This paper examines the impact of the interventions on job search outcomes for women 3-4 months after the baseline survey and assignment to treatment for approximately half the planned sample. The first midline survey examines specifically job search behaviors: reservation wages, reservation job quality, and job search effort. The authors also discuss take-up of the two interventions and contextualize take-up and outcomes with information on norms about women’s work and childcare.
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author	Caria, Stefano Crepon, Bruno ElBehairy, Hala Fadlalmawla, Noha Krafft, Caroline Nagy, Abdelrahman Mottaghi, Lili Zeitoun, Nahla El Assiouty, Souraya
spellingShingle	Caria, Stefano Crepon, Bruno ElBehairy, Hala Fadlalmawla, Noha Krafft, Caroline Nagy, Abdelrahman Mottaghi, Lili Zeitoun, Nahla El Assiouty, Souraya Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results
author_facet	Caria, Stefano Crepon, Bruno ElBehairy, Hala Fadlalmawla, Noha Krafft, Caroline Nagy, Abdelrahman Mottaghi, Lili Zeitoun, Nahla El Assiouty, Souraya
author_sort	Caria, Stefano
title	Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results
title_short	Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results
title_full	Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results
title_fullStr	Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results
title_full_unstemmed	Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results
title_sort	child care subsidies, employment services and women's labor market outcomes in egypt : first midline results
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
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Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results

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