%0 Report
        %A Alon, Titan
%A Doepke, Matthias
%A Manysheva, Kristina
%A Tertilt, Michèle
        %T Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15013
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15013
        %X 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.
        %K women’s labor supply
%K pandemics
%K COVID-19
%K gender equality