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Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Heath, Rachel M.; Boudreau, Laura; Matin, Imran; Ahmed, Shakil, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - The Effects of Employer Responses to COVID-19 on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.710.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
This study developed and implemented a mobile-phone-based survey of garment workers in Bangladesh, providing insights about COVID-19 responses in their workplace and the effects on workers. The study asked about factory shutdowns, the rate of safety measures like masks and increa... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Hsu, Eric; Wancera Wambugu, Anne, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Taming Counterfeits Markets with Consumer Information", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.620.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The project aimed to study whether an information campaign to improve Kenyan farmers’ ability to detect quality of agricultural inputs—such as seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides was able to help: increase usage of techniques to verify seed quality, increase adoption of quality-ver... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Alfonsi, Livia; Namubiru, Mary; Spaziani, Sara, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Meet Your Future Project: COVID-19 Phone Surveys - Students and Alumnis", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.696.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The Meet Your Future Project (MYF) is an RCT designed in partnership with BRAC Uganda to investigate the relative importance of several barriers to quality employment that students face when transitioning from the educational sector into labor markets characterized by high levels... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Whillans, Ashley; Belal, Saika, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Tracking the Value of Time of Informal Sector Workers During and Post-Curfew in Nairobi", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.701.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal field experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working moth... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; Sharmin, Sreyashi; Voena, Alessandra, 2023, "G²LM|LIC- Women’s Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.708.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Data is based on a phone survey of 1,545 rural Indian households collected in August 2020 in 20 districts across 6 states (Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra) in Northern India in August 2020. Households participated in a 20–30 min survey... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Ambler, Kate; Arcangelis, Guiseppe De; Yang, Dean, 2023, "G2LM|LIC – Impacts of Labeling Remittances on Migrants and their Households in the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.702.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The study seeks to support the Philippine COVID-19 response by quantifying the role of international migrant remittances in helping households cope with the pandemic’s economic consequences. To investigate how pandemic closures and restrictions affect migrants’ income and remitta... |
Oct 9, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Miller, Amalia Rebecca; Ramdas, Kamalini; Sungu, Alp, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Browsers Don't Lie", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.687.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The project collaborated with PY Insights, an internet-browser analytics platform, and Dynata, a global first-party data platform, to field the survey between mid-May and early June 2020. Individuals drawn from Dynata’s marketing pools in India, Kenya and Nigeria were invited to... |
Sep 27, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Krafft, Caroline; Caria, Stefano; Nagy, Abdelrahman; Fadl, Noha; Elbehairy, Hala, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Assessing the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19 on Women With Young Children in Egypt", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.697.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
To better understand the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on female labor force participation in Egypt, the study collects data with a particular focus on the intersection of COVID-19, child care, and women’s employment. The data collection was led by the research team at J... |
