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Gender differentiated economic responses to crises in developing countries: insights for COVID-19 recovery policies

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  • Sandeep Mohapatra

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COVID-19 has wide-ranging and long-term implications for individual and household outcomes. Policymakers expect that the economic impact of COVID-19, channeled through labor markets, will disproportionately fall on women and girls, relative to men and boys. Surprisingly, little evidence exists for informing gender-sensitive COVID-19 recovery policies. This study examines the existence of gender-differentiated dynamic responses of labor market and other household welfare outcomes to GDP contractions using historical country level panel data for South/South-East Asia and West Africa. The econometric results reveal large gender differences in economic outcomes post crisis and provide insights for designing gender-sensitive COVID-19 recovery policies.

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  • Sandeep Mohapatra, 2021. "Gender differentiated economic responses to crises in developing countries: insights for COVID-19 recovery policies," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 291-306, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:reveho:v:19:y:2021:i:2:d:10.1007_s11150-020-09512-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s11150-020-09512-z
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