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Improving Job Matching Among Youth in Iraq

So Yoon Ahn
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Benjamin Feigenberg
Researchers evaluated the whether providing objective information helps jobseekers target better-suited jobs.
Women stand at a curb hailing a cab or rideshare car.

Ride-Hailing Services to Increase Urban Mobility in Egypt

Peter Christensen
Adam Osman
Researchers collaborated with Uber in Egypt to assess the impacts of expanding access to its ride services through price on the demand for ride-hailing and overall consumer mobility. Lowering the price of ride-hailing services increased people’s use of Uber and overall consumer mobility.
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Job Training and Matching to Increase Youth Employment in Egypt

Ahmed Elsayed
Kevin Hempel
Adam Osman
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to determine the impact of job matching, job training, and counseling programs on youth employment in Egypt. The job training programs improved labor market outcomes such as employment, particularly for women. However, the intervention did not have a...
Group of children in headscarves wait on stairs outside Moroccan school

Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco

Najy Benhassine
Florencia Devoto
Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Victor Pouliquen
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation of a cash transfer program in Morocco to estimate the impact on attendance and enrollment of a “labeled cash transfer” (LCT): a small cash transfer made to parents of school-aged children in poor rural communities, not conditional on school attendance...
A group of female plumbers enter a school to fix a water tank in Jordan.

Job Search Assistance for Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Stefano Caria
Grant Gordon
Maximilian Kasy
Simon Quinn
Soha Shami
Alex Teytelboym
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation that introduced an adaptive targeted treatment assignment methodology to measure the impact of providing different types of job search assistance on job search rates and labor outcomes for Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan. While none of the...
Young Carpenter in Egypt

The Impact of Stigma on Labor Market Assistance Take-Up in Egypt

Adam Osman
Jamin D. Speer
Researchers studied the impact of acknowledging and refuting stigma on take-up of labor market assistance programs. The results of three randomized evaluations indicated that mentioning stigma, even with the aim of dispelling it, generally reduced take-up of these programs.
Four young boys sit at a table playing with pegs

The Impact of Childcare Subsidies and Employment Services on Women's Labor Force Participation in Egypt

Stefano Caria
Bruno Crépon
Caroline Krafft
AbdelRahman Nagy
In collaboration with Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing women with childcare subsidies and employment services on their employment and empowerment outcomes, as well as their children’s cognitive and...
Training session for migrant workers in Qatar.

Financial Education for Indian Migrant Workers in Qatar

Ganesh Seshan
Dean Yang
Researchers examined the impact of receiving an invitation to a savings-focused financial literacy workshop on the financial decisions of Indian migrant workers in Qatar and their wives in India. A one-time financial literacy workshop in Qatar increased migrant workers’ joint financial decision...