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Thematic Area: Fact & Policy

The fast growth in RCTs, field and lab experiments open up several opportunities for assembling evidence on gender inequalities in labour markets based on quantitative individual data to complement existing evidence based on opinion surveys (e.g., World Values Survey) or macro aggregates (e.g., World Economic Forum indexes). Research under this theme includes: (i) Bayesian hierarchical analysis and other Meta analyses of experiments to assess gender differences in personality traits across cultures, (ii) long-run follow-up of “empowerment” interventions to leverage existing data and ask new questions, (iii) replications and assembly of survey data to study the same question across different contexts. Questions include but are not limited to: What do the data say about female labour force participation across and within developing countries? What is the level of unemployment and under employment? What is the share of casual jobs? How does labour supply vary with the level of income? What does history tell us about key factors that helped increase women’s participation in the labour market? What are the primary constraints that female entrepreneurs face, and are these different from the constraints faced by male entrepreneurs? To what extent do socio-emotional skills and preferences, like attitudes to risk, competition, negotiation, sensitiveness to social cues play a role?


G²LM|LIC Research Project conducted by London School Of Economics

Digitising Historical Plant Level Panel Data on Labour Outcomes

This project seeks to digitise historical plant–level data on labour outcomes from India. In addition to monthly, plant–level data on various labour outcomes, these data contain unique plant identifiers, which can be combined with...

  • Gender
  • Labour Markets
  • India
G²LM|LIC Research Project conducted by University of Cape Town

Education and Labour Market Dynamics in a Period of Rapid Education Expansion:

Building Evidence from Existing Ghanaian Survey Data Sources

Recognizing the need for policies that address poverty and inequality and build social cohesion, the Ghanaian government rolled out free compulsory primary education in 1996 and free senior high school provision in 2017. With the first cohorts...

  • Employment
  • Gender
  • Labour Markets
  • Youth
  • Ghana
G²LM|LIC Research Project conducted by Dartmouth College

Long–Run Social Norms and Female Labour Force Participation in India

India’s gender inequality and low female labour force participation rate (FLFP) are in stark contrast to its position as the fifth-largest economy in the world. Fewer than 25% of women work outside the home, and historical patriarchal norms...

  • Gender
  • Labour Markets
  • India
G²LM|LIC Research Project conducted by BRAC University

The Roles of Information and Search Frictions in Determining Working Conditions in Bangladesh’s Apparel Sector

The emergence of low-skill manufacturing sectors in developing countries can increase labor market opportunities and provide other economics benefits for women (Heath and Mobarak, 2015; Tanaka, 2017). But in light of the poor conditions that...

  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Garment
  • Job Search
  • RCT
  • Bangladesh
G²LM|LIC Research Project conducted by Columbia University

Whistleblowing and Worker Wellbeing: Evidence from Bangladesh’s Garments Sector

In many developing countries, the private sector lacks monitoring systems to provide firms with incentives for good behavior. In part, this problem is due to weak, sometimes corrupt state institutions (Dal Bó and Finan, 2016). In part, it may also...

  • Employment
  • Garment
  • Bangladesh

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