Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Kristina Manysheva and Michele Tertilt

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, vol. 112, 272-76

Abstract: In many high-income economies, the COVID-19 recession has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries. A force affecting high- and low-income countries alike is 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.

JEL-codes: E32 I12 I18 I28 J13 J16 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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