@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15013,
            	author={Alon, Titan and Doepke, Matthias and Manysheva, Kristina and Tertilt, Michèle},
            	title={Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries},
            	year={2022},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15013},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15013},
	abstract={In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. A force affecting high- and low-income countries alike are 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. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly in low-income countries. We conjecture that large income losses without offsetting government transfers drive up labor supply in low-income countries during the recovery.},
	keywords={women’s labor supply;pandemics;COVID-19;gender equality},
            }