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The (In)direct Effect of a Training Program on Woman's Employment - Experimental Evidence from the Health Sector in Egypt

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  • Researchers:

    • Marc Witte, Selim Gulesci and Ahmed Elsayed

  • Partners:

    • Giving without Limbs

  • Location:

    • Egypt

  • Sample:

    • Young women (aged 18 - 29) in the governorates of Assiut and Sohag in Southern Egypt

  • Timeline:

    • 2022-2024

  • Theme:

    • Gender, Labour

  • Description:

    • Can female employment be pioneered through training schemes? We partner with a non-governmental organization that trains women to become primary care nurses in Southern Egypt, a context with very low female labour force participation. We investigate the extent to which trainees join the labour market and become employed (direct effect), and whether this affects the attitudes towards female employment and labour market outcomes of their social networks (indirect effect). Based on a clustered randomized control trial, we trace the impacts of these 'pioneer' trainees on their social contacts, with some of these contacts being connected to treated participants and others to the control group individuals.