Roberta Gatti
Biographic Data
| ID | 799569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Gatti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Gatti |
| SIGNATURE | GATTI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank Group |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Under pressure: Global evidence on conflict and firms
Returns to Education in the Marriage Market: Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt
This paper investigates the marriage market returns to female education by examining the resources transferred from the groom to the bride and her family at the time of marriage, known as the bride price, as well as the husband’s imputed permanent income as an additional source of returns. The study exploits a school reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years required to complete primary education from six to five, creating exogenous variat…
Labor market transitions in Egypt post-Arab Spring
This paper examines Egypt’s labor market transition dynamics post-Arab Spring based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018. In addition to providing disaggregated level analysis by examining labor market transitions by gender, education, and age groups, our paper provides a cross-country perspective by comparing Egypt’s labor market transitions with Jordan’s. Regression analyses focusing on…
Human resource challenges in health systems: Evidence from 10 African countries
Sub-Saharan Africa has fewer medical workers per capita than any region of the world, and that shortage has been highlighted consistently as a critical constraint to improving health outcomes in the region. This paper draws on newly available, systematic, comparable data from 10 countries in the region to explore the dimensions of this shortage. We find wide variation in human resources performance metrics, both within and across countries. Many …
Returns to Education in the Marriage Market: Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt
The human capital of firms and the formal training of workers
The benefits of formal training are numerous, and yet in many regions few firms utilize them. In this study, we build on the literature by exploring how two forms of human capital–the quality of management practices and the proportion of university educated employees - influence the adoption of formal training. Using both cross-sectional and panel firm-level data for 29 economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and 6 Middle East and Nort…
Labor Market Transitions in Egypt Post-Arab Spring
This paper examines the Arab Republic \n of Egypt’s labor market transition dynamics post–Arab Spring \n based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor \n Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018. In addition \n to providing disaggregated-level analysis by examining labor \n market transitions by gender, education, and age groups, the \n paper provides a cross-country, cross-regional perspective \n by comparing Egypt’s labor market …
A New State of Mind: Greater Transparency and Accountability in the Middle East and North Africa
The MENA region is facing important vulnerabilities, which the current crises—first the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine—have exacerbated. Prices of food and energy are higher, hurting the most vulnerable, and rising interest rates from the global tightening of monetary policy are making debt service more burdensome. Part I explores some of the resulting vulnerabilities for MENA. MENA countries are facing diverging paths for future growth. Oil E…
A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index that was launched in October 2018. Within-country disparities in human capital outcomes …
Labor Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Increased labor mobility bears large \n potential benefits for human development and poverty \n reduction through various channels including more \n competitive global labor markets and increased efficiency in \n the matching of skills supply and demand. Bank support for \n enhanced and better managed migration can complement broader \n efforts to reduce poverty and promote human development, \n similarly to how Bank projects on trade liberalizat…
Child labor and agricultural shocks
Child Labor: The Role of Financial Development and Income Variability across Countries
In this article, we examine the link between child labor and financial development using cross‐country data. We show that child labor and financial development display a significant negative relationship, which is particularly strong in the sample of low‐income countries and is robust for a wide range of specifications and estimators, including fixed‐effects and instrumental variables. We identify a plausible channel through which financial devel…
Individual Attitudes toward Corruption: Do Social Effects Matter
Using individual-level data for 35 countries, the authors investigate the microeconomic determinants of attitudes toward corruption. They find women, employed, less wealthy, and older individuals to be more averse to corruption. The authors also provide evidence that social effects play an important role in determining individual attitudes toward corruption, as these are robustly and significantly associated with the average level of tolerance of…
Decentralization and corruption: Evidence across countries
Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Federal Transfer Programs
Are women really the “fairer” sex? Corruption and women in government
Corruption and Trade Tariffs, or a Case for Uniform Tariffs
November 1999 - A highly diversified trade tariff menu may fuel bribe-taking behavior. Setting trade tariff rates at a uniform level limits public officials' ability to extract bribes from importers. By explicitly accounting for the interaction between importers and corrupt customs officials, Gatti argues that setting trade tariff rates at a uniform level limits public officials' ability to extract bribes from importers. If the government's main …
Child labor and agricultural shocks
Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Federal Transfer Programs
Child Labor: The Role of Financial Development and Income Variability across Countries
In this article, we examine the link between child labor and financial development using cross‐country data. We show that child labor and financial development display a significant negative relationship, which is particularly strong in the sample of low‐income countries and is robust for a wide range of specifications and estimators, including fixed‐effects and instrumental variables. We identify a plausible channel through which financial devel…
Corruption and Trade Tariffs, or a Case for Uniform Tariffs
November 1999 - A highly diversified trade tariff menu may fuel bribe-taking behavior. Setting trade tariff rates at a uniform level limits public officials' ability to extract bribes from importers. By explicitly accounting for the interaction between importers and corrupt customs officials, Gatti argues that setting trade tariff rates at a uniform level limits public officials' ability to extract bribes from importers. If the government's main …
Are women really the “fairer” sex? Corruption and women in government
Decentralization and corruption: Evidence across countries
Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Federal Transfer Programs
Individual Attitudes toward Corruption: Do Social Effects Matter
Using individual-level data for 35 countries, the authors investigate the microeconomic determinants of attitudes toward corruption. They find women, employed, less wealthy, and older individuals to be more averse to corruption. The authors also provide evidence that social effects play an important role in determining individual attitudes toward corruption, as these are robustly and significantly associated with the average level of tolerance of…
Child labor and agricultural shocks
Child Labor: The Role of Financial Development and Income Variability across Countries
In this article, we examine the link between child labor and financial development using cross‐country data. We show that child labor and financial development display a significant negative relationship, which is particularly strong in the sample of low‐income countries and is robust for a wide range of specifications and estimators, including fixed‐effects and instrumental variables. We identify a plausible channel through which financial devel…
Labor Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Increased labor mobility bears large \n potential benefits for human development and poverty \n reduction through various channels including more \n competitive global labor markets and increased efficiency in \n the matching of skills supply and demand. Bank support for \n enhanced and better managed migration can complement broader \n efforts to reduce poverty and promote human development, \n similarly to how Bank projects on trade liberalizat…
A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index that was launched in October 2018. Within-country disparities in human capital outcomes …
Labor Market Transitions in Egypt Post-Arab Spring
This paper examines the Arab Republic \n of Egypt’s labor market transition dynamics post–Arab Spring \n based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor \n Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018. In addition \n to providing disaggregated-level analysis by examining labor \n market transitions by gender, education, and age groups, the \n paper provides a cross-country, cross-regional perspective \n by comparing Egypt’s labor market …
A New State of Mind: Greater Transparency and Accountability in the Middle East and North Africa
The MENA region is facing important vulnerabilities, which the current crises—first the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine—have exacerbated. Prices of food and energy are higher, hurting the most vulnerable, and rising interest rates from the global tightening of monetary policy are making debt service more burdensome. Part I explores some of the resulting vulnerabilities for MENA. MENA countries are facing diverging paths for future growth. Oil E…
Returns to Education in the Marriage Market: Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt
The human capital of firms and the formal training of workers
The benefits of formal training are numerous, and yet in many regions few firms utilize them. In this study, we build on the literature by exploring how two forms of human capital–the quality of management practices and the proportion of university educated employees - influence the adoption of formal training. Using both cross-sectional and panel firm-level data for 29 economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and 6 Middle East and Nort…
Labor market transitions in Egypt post-Arab Spring
This paper examines Egypt’s labor market transition dynamics post-Arab Spring based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018. In addition to providing disaggregated level analysis by examining labor market transitions by gender, education, and age groups, our paper provides a cross-country perspective by comparing Egypt’s labor market transitions with Jordan’s. Regression analyses focusing on…
Human resource challenges in health systems: Evidence from 10 African countries
Sub-Saharan Africa has fewer medical workers per capita than any region of the world, and that shortage has been highlighted consistently as a critical constraint to improving health outcomes in the region. This paper draws on newly available, systematic, comparable data from 10 countries in the region to explore the dimensions of this shortage. We find wide variation in human resources performance metrics, both within and across countries. Many …
Returns to Education in the Marriage Market: Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt
This paper investigates the marriage market returns to female education by examining the resources transferred from the groom to the bride and her family at the time of marriage, known as the bride price, as well as the husband’s imputed permanent income as an additional source of returns. The study exploits a school reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years required to complete primary education from six to five, creating exogenous variat…
Under pressure: Global evidence on conflict and firms
Economics (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (6 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Language change (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works)