Jordan NOW: randomized experiment designed to boost female labor force participation

        The low participation rates of women in the workforce in the Middle East and North Africa, lower than any other region in the world, has puzzled analysts for some time. A number of…

Matthew Groh |
Education, Gender, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Jobs & Development, Social Protection

The Results are in! Did our blog readers do better than our seminar audiences at predicting the impacts of a jobs program?

In a recent post, I described a randomized experiment in Jordan that I (along with Matt Groh, Nandini Krishnan and Tara Vishwanath) have been working on.

David McKenzie |
Gender, Jobs & Development

Are our blog readers better predictors of impact results than seminar audiences? Evaluating programs to get young women to work

I’ve been working for the last couple of years with Tara Vishwanath, Nandini Krishnan and Matt Groh on a pilot program in Jordan which aims to get young women just graduating from community…

David McKenzie |
Gender, Jobs & Development