{"type":"script","doc_desc":{"producers":[{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","abbr":"DECDI","affiliation":"World Bank - Development Impact Department","role":"Verification and preparation of metadata"}],"prod_date":"2026-02-20","version":"1"},"project_desc":{"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Ivette Contreras","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"icontreras@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Lelys Dinarte-Diaz","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"ldinartediaz@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Amparo Palacios-Lopez","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"apalacioslopez@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Valentina Costa","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"vcosta@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Steffanny Romero","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"stefann.romero@gmail.com"}],"title_statement":{"title":"Reproducibility package for Beyond Wages: What Matters Most In Job Choice For Women In El Salvador","idno":"RR_SLV_2026_569"},"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. ","software":[{"name":"Stata","version":"19.5 MP"}],"scripts":[{"title":"Reproducibility package for Beyond Wages: What Matters Most In Job Choice For Women In El Salvador","date":"2026-02","notes":"Computational reproducibility verified by Development Impact (DECDI) Analytics team, World Bank.","instructions":"See README in reproducibility package.","file_name":"RR_SLV_2026_569","zip_package":"RR_SLV_2026_569.zip","dependencies":"Stata dependencies are listed in the ado folder."}],"repository_uri":[{"name":"Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank)","uri":"https:\/\/reproducibility.worldbank.org"}],"production_date":"2026-02-20","abstract":"This paper studies job preferences among women in rural and peri-urban areas in El Salvador using a Discrete Choice Experiment. Drawing on focus group insights, we vary wages and five non\u2011wage job attributes\u2014contract status, experience requirements, commute safety, residential address disclosure, and childcare availability; and estimate preferences using a mixed logit model. Women are willing to forgo substantial earnings for jobs that offer a safe commute, accessible childcare, and lower barriers to entry, while formal contracts play a limited role in job choice in this high informality context. Preferences are heterogeneous: risk averse and rural women place a particularly high premium on safety and childcare, while younger and less risk averse women are more sensitive to entry barriers and address related stigma. The results highlight the importance of labor market frictions that prevent wages from compensating for job disamenities and suggest that policies targeting safety, childcare, and access may be more effective than contract formalization in expanding women\u2019s employment opportunities.","geographic_units":[{"name":"El Salvador","code":"SLV"}],"keywords":[{"name":"Job Preferences"},{"name":"Labor Market Frictions"},{"name":"Women\u2019s Employment"}],"topics":[{"id":"J16","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Economics of Gender \u2022 Non-labor Discrimination","parent_id":"J1"},{"id":" J23","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Labor Demand","parent_id":"J2"},{"id":" O15","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Human Resources \u2022 Human Development \u2022 Income Distribution \u2022 Migration","parent_id":"O1"}],"output":[{"type":"Working Paper","description":"Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP)","title":"Beyond Wages: What Matters Most In Job Choice For Women In El Salvador"}],"language":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"technology_requirements":"Run time: 6 minutes","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":"Ivette Contreras","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"icontreras@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"reproducibility@worldbank.org"}],"datasets":[{"note":"Files location: Data anonymized\/Raw data\/DCE_mujeres.dta; master_data.dta; section9A.dta. \nThe data for this project is owned by the World Bank (it came from a survey data procured by the World Bank under the project P168212). \nTo collect the relevant data, the sample included 1,008 households (2,480 household members) between August and October 2022. More information is available at the README file. \nThe data will be published in the Microdata Library in July 2026. Replicators may contact the authors for early data access.","name":"Labor Measurement for Women and Youth: Randomized Survey Experiment in El Salvador","citation":"World Bank. 2022. Labor Measurement for Women and Youth: Randomized Survey Experiment in El Salvador [dataset]. [Forthcoming] ","uri":"Forthcoming at https:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org\/","access_type":"Data is forthcoming in the World Bank Microdata Library"}],"reproduction_instructions":"To reproduce the findings in this paper, users must do the following:\n\n1. Once the data is published in the microdata library, download and place it in the appropriate folder.\n2. Open the `master-dofile`, change the path and user name at the top of the script.\n3. Run the code.\n\nSince the data is not yet publicly available, the results created by the replicators are included in the folder `outputs` so that interested users can verify these against the results in the paper.","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) PLATINUM 8562Y+, 2800 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)\n\u2022 Memory available: 112 GB"},"tags":[{"tag":"DOI"},{"tag":"Forthcoming Data"},{"tag":"Open Code"}],"schematype":"script"}