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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Income and Mental Well-Being of Cismen, Ciswomen, Transgender, and Non-Binary Individuals : Evidence from the 2020 COVID-19 Disparities Survey
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper uses the first round of the 2020 COVID-19 Disparities Survey to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the income and mental well-being of cismen, ciswomen, transgender, and non-binary individuals. The analysis shows that the pandemic led to high job and income loss expectations among transgender and non-binary individuals. The pandemic has also led to a disproportionate reported decrease in consumption for transgender and non-binary people compared to cismen, potentially related to a high rate of anxiety, loneliness, and depression observed in the group. The results highlight that the disproportionate economic impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic might cause further declines in the economic conditions of transgender and non-binary people, thus exacerbating existing vulnerabilities in the community.


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Women's Economic Participation, Time use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This study documents the labor market outcomes and time-use patterns of women in urban Bangladesh. Using survey data collected in 2018 in low-income neighborhoods of Dhaka, the paper finds that women with children aged 0-5 years have lower likelihood of labor market participation, lower likelihood of working, and lower likelihood of being an earner, compared to women with no children and women with children aged 6 years or older. While this motherhood penalty affects all mothers, those who have young children but have no access to childcare support face the largest penalty. Time-use patterns confirm these findings, indicating that mothers of young children with no access to childcare spend less time on market work, more time on unpaid work, and less time on leisure or other activities. In addition, they are more likely to perform childcare as a secondary activity along with other paid and unpaid work, which may have implications for their productivity and the quality of care provided to children. The paper proposes entry points to ease the double burden of paid and unpaid care work on mothers in urban areas, where the availability and affordability of formal childcare services is low, and community-based or other informal care arrangements are not common.


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Do Crises Hit Female-Managed and Male-Managed Firms Differently? : Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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While efforts are currently in place to collect data on the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this note looks at the experience of the 2008 financial crisis to gain insights on possible differential effects of crises on female and male entrepreneurs. Specially, the note uses firm-level data collected immediately after the 2008 financial crisis in six countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Turkey) to look at two aspects of the differential effect of the crisis. First, whether there is a difference in the exit rate for firms with male vs. female top managers; and second, whether, among firms that stayed in business, female-managed firms are affected disproportionally. Results show that firms run by female top managers are more likely to exit the market. Secondly, when able to stay in business, male and female-managed firms suffered a similar impact in the short term; however, female-managed firms suffered more than male-managed firms in the longer term.

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