Data and Code for: Gendered Impacts of Covid-19 in Developing Countries

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Titan Alon, University of California-San Diego; Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University; Kristina Manysheva, Northwestern University; Michele Tertilt, University of Mannheim

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Employment_Share_of_Ag_and_Serv_in_2015.xlsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet	50.7 KB	04/29/2022 01:40:PM
Global_Mobility_Report.csv	text/csv	839.2 MB	12/21/2021 07:22:AM
Learning_activities_Covid19.xlsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet	18.4 MB	03/07/2022 06:37:AM
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Nigeria_timeline.pdf	application/pdf	18.2 KB	03/07/2022 11:09:AM
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ad_empl_sept.dta	application/x-stata-dta	9.9 MB	03/07/2022 10:07:AM

Project Citation:

Alon, Titan, Doepke, Matthias, Manysheva, Kristina, and Tertilt, Michele. Data and Code for: Gendered Impacts of Covid-19 in Developing Countries. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-05-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/E169142V1

Project Description

Summary: In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women’s employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. A force affecting high- and low-income countries alike are increased childcare needs during school closures; in Nigeria, mothers of school-age children experience the largest declines in employment during the pandemic, just as in high-income countries. A key difference is the role of the sectoral distribution of employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women’s employment rebounded much more quickly in low-income countries. We conjecture that large income losses without offsetting government transfers drive up labor supply in low-income countries during the recovery.

Funding Sources: National Science Foundation (SES-1949228); German Research Foundation (CRC-TR-224 project A3)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
      E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J20 Demand and Supply of Labor: General

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