{"type":"script","doc_desc":{"producers":[{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","abbr":"DECDI","affiliation":"World Bank - Development Impact Department","role":"Verification and preparation of metadata"}],"prod_date":"2025-12-22","version":"1"},"project_desc":{"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Maurizio Bussolo","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"mbussolo@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Jean Lee","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"jlee20@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Mahreen Mahmud","affiliation":"University of Exeter","email":"m.mahmud@exeter.ac.uk"},{"name":"Nayantara Sarma","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"nsarma@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Anaise Williams","affiliation":"Johns Hopkins University","email":"awill137@jhmi.edu"}],"title_statement":{"title":"Reproducibility package for Wage Subsidies To Promote Female Hiring: Evidence From Pakistan","idno":"RR_PAK_2025_511"},"software":[{"name":"R","version":"4.5.1"},{"name":"Stata","version":"19.5 MP"}],"scripts":[{"title":"Reproducibility package for Wage Subsidies To Promote Female Hiring: Evidence From Pakistan","date":"2025-12","notes":"Computational reproducibility verified by Development Impact (DECDI) Analytics team, World Bank.","instructions":"See README in reproducibility package.","file_name":"RR_PAK_2025_511","zip_package":"RR_PAK_2025_511.zip","dependencies":"R dependencies are listed in the file renv.lock. Stata dependencies are listed in the ado folder."}],"repository_uri":[{"name":"Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank)","uri":"https:\/\/reproducibility.worldbank.org"}],"production_date":"2025-12-22","abstract":"Can employer-side wage subsidies increase women\u2019s hiring in low female labor force\nparticipation settings? We test this through a randomized experiment with 1,227\nPakistani firms on a national jobs platform. Treatment firms were offered a six-month\nwage subsidy determined via the Becker\u2013DeGroot\u2013Marschak mechanism. They were\n11 percentage points more likely to hire a woman, with larger effects for male-only\nfirms. After 18 months, the treatment effect on employing a woman persisted, though\nfirm-wide share of female employees did not change. Additionally, administrative data\nshow treated firms reduced male-preference language in job postings, consistent with\nemerging demand-side shifts.","geographic_units":[{"name":"Pakistan","code":"PAK"}],"output":[{"type":"Working Paper","description":"Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP)","title":"Wage Subsidies To Promote Female Hiring: Evidence From Pakistan"}],"language":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"disclaimer":"The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development\/The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.","license":[{"name":"Modified BSD3","uri":"https:\/\/opensource.org\/license\/bsd-3-clause\/"}],"contacts":[{"name":"Maurizio Bussolo","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"mbussolo@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"reproducibility@worldbank.org"}],"technology_environment":"Paper exhibits were reproduced on a computer with the following specifications:\n\u2022 OS: Windows 11 Enterprise\n\u2022 Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R CPU @ 2.90GHz\n\u2022 Memory available: 16.0 GB","technology_requirements":"Runtime: 4 minutes","datasets":[{"name":"Full set of Rozee.pk portal job advertisements","note":"Source: Rozee.pk portal.\nFile location: \"dta\\raw\\portal_outofsample_raw.dta\".","access_type":"Data is forthcoming in the World Bank Microdata Library.","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0)","license_uri":"https:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org\/terms-of-use"},{"name":"Industry codes","note":"Source: Rozee.pk administrative data\nFile location: \"dta\\raw\\industry codes.dta\".","access_type":"Data is forthcoming in the World Bank Microdata Library.","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0)","license_uri":"https:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org\/terms-of-use"},{"name":"Education codes","note":"Source: Rozee.pk administrative data.\nFile location: \"dta\\raw\\edu codes.dta\".","access_type":"Data is forthcoming in the World Bank Microdata Library.","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0)","license_uri":"https:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org\/terms-of-use"},{"name":"Rozee.pk portal job advertisements by sample firms","note":"Source: Rozee.pk portal\nFile location: \"dta\\raw\\job_ads.csv\"","access_type":"Data is forthcoming in the World Bank Microdata Library.","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0)","license_uri":"https:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org\/terms-of-use"},{"name":"Rozee phone survey of firms","note":"Source: Data collected by the authors.\nFile location: \"dta\\raw\\rozee_survey_raw.dta\"","access_type":"Data is forthcoming in the World Bank Microdata Library.","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0)","license_uri":"https:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org\/terms-of-use"}],"data_statement":"All data is not yet publicly available but is expected to be made available through the World Bank Microdata Library in the future.","reproduction_instructions":"All data used is forthcoming and not included in the reproducibility package. Once users have access to all the data, to reproduce the findings, a new user needs to:\n1. Adjust the file path in the `0. master` do-file and run the code.\n2. Adjust the file path in the `3. htes_figOA4-5.R` script and run the code."},"tags":[{"tag":"DOI"},{"tag":"Open Code"}],"schematype":"script"}