Hala ElBehairy

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Hala ElBehairy is a Research Associate at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa. She works on evaluating the impact of the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity’s program to improve access to nurseries and employment services on mothers' labor market outcomes and early childhood development.Prior to joining J-PAL in 2021, she worked as a Consultant at The International Institute for Educational Planning IIEP-UNESCO and also as a Research Assistant for different projects related to the Labor Market Dynamics and Female Labor Force Participation in the MENA region.Hala holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy/Applied economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and Cairo University.

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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MENA LABOR MARKETS: A GENDERED ANALYSIS FROM EGYPT, TUNISIA, MOROCCO AND JORDAN

The Authors wish to thank the Economic Research Forum (ERF) for funding this research and for fac... more

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Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services, and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt: First Midline Results.

by Caroline Krafft and Hala ElBehairy

Middle East and North Africa Gender Innovation Lab Policy Research Paper. , 2022

Research, programming, and policy around norms change is a priority in light of our findings. Rec... more Research, programming, and policy around norms change is a priority in light of our findings. Recognizing, redistributing, and reducing care work is a critical part of changing norms (Economic Research Forum & UN Women, 2020). Generally, shifting gender norms is fundamental to redressing gender inequality (Harper, Marcus, George, D'Angelo, & Samman, 2020; Jayachandran, 2019; United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 2020). The education system can provide an important long-term opportunity for shifting norms across generations (Dhar, Jain, & Jayachandran, 2018; Levy et al., 2020). Egyptian women, particularly married women with young children, face an array of obstacles that prevent them from participating in the labor market. Relaxing one or two constraints may be insufficient to allow women to work. Multi-faceted programs and policy approaches are needed. A parallel might be the targeting the ultra-poor or graduation programs. Such programs (Banerjee et al., 2015; BRAC, Sawiris Foundation, & J-PAL, 2019) are designed to tackle a variety of constraints, simultaneously, that "trap" the poor, through a multitude of bundled interventions. Programs typically provide a productive asset, support and training to use the asset, health, cash, savings or loan, and life skills support (Banerjee et al., 2015; BRAC, 2016). Programs and policies to promote women's employment in Egypt (and particularly married women's employment) may likewise need a large package of interventions to simultaneously tackle a host of constraints, including not only the cost of child care and employment services, but also gender norms, child care quality, employer discrimination, and the fundamentals of labor demand.

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