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Field Before After
Trial Status in_development completed
Abstract Due to the pending nature of the study, we are not able to share details at this time. Do employers discriminate against married women? This research submitted fictitious resumes to online job postings in Egypt, randomizing gender and marital status.
Trial End Date October 15, 2022 February 01, 2023
Last Published October 02, 2022 07:32 AM November 10, 2023 07:37 PM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date February 01, 2023
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 710 job postings
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 2,676 resumes submitted
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 710 each of: single men, single women, married men, married women
Public Data URL https://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/268
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files Yes
Program Files URL https://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/268
Data Collection Completion Date February 01, 2023
Is data available for public use? Yes
Intervention End Date October 15, 2022 February 01, 2023
Public analysis plan No Yes
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Papers

Field Before After
Paper Abstract Do employers discriminate against married women? This research submitted fictitious resumes to online job postings in Egypt, randomizing gender and marital status. More job postings explicitly required men (14 per cent) than women (4 per cent). Despite the gender discrimination in postings, women were only slightly less likely to receive callbacks than men, with only a small difference between single and married women. Differences in callbacks by sex and marital status were not statistically significant. Women and especially married women were, however, particularly likely to be asked for more information rather than scheduled for an interview. The findings suggest that the low employment rate of women and especially married women in Egypt, at least in the segment of the labour market we are able to examine, is not primarily due to employer discrimination at the callback stage.
Paper Citation Caroline Krafft, Do employers discriminate against married women? Evidence from a field experiment in Egypt, Cairo: International Labour Organization, 2023
Paper URL https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---africa/---ro-abidjan/---sro-cairo/documents/publication/wcms_900839.pdf
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