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cord-273269-bjgfm73q	Meyer, Christian Johannes	The market-reach of pandemics: Evidence from female workers in Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry	2020-10-14		.txt	text/plain	5185	287	58	We conduct a phone survey with a random sample of female RMG workers employed before the start of the crisis in Hawassa Industrial Park (HIP), Ethiopia's flagship special economic zone. We find significant changes in employment status within our sample; 41 percent of respondents employed in HIP in January 2020 were put on leave or terminated by the time of our survey. We report on a total sample of 3896 female HIP workers, including information on fixed demographics, current location and migration, employment status, income, savings, and expenditures, and mental health. Although we do not have pre-crisis measures of food security for our sample, the reported levels of household 10 To understand risk factors among HIP workers, our survey collects data on six health conditions (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hepatitis B, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney diseases, and cancer) that were commonly observed comorbidities at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (Guan et al., 2020) .	./cache/cord-273269-bjgfm73q.txt	./txt/cord-273269-bjgfm73q.txt