Co-Residence with Parents-in-Law, Female Labor Force Participation, and Autonomy
This paper studies the impact of co-residence with father-in-law and mother-in-law on female labor force participation (FLFP) and autonomy. We study this in the Indian context where patrilocality is common and women have limited mobility and autonomy, especially with a parent-in-law present in the household. We use two rounds of India Human Development Survey (IHDS) panel data for the analysis taking death of healthy parent-in-law as the exogenous source of variation. Depending on the specification, death of one’s father- in-law increases the labor force participation of women by approximately 10 to 11 percentage points, compared to a similar household where the father-in-law still co-resides in the second round. This effect is driven by increased autonomy for women which is 0.28 standard deviations higher after the death of father-in-law. Death of mother-in-law also leads to 0.25 standard deviations increase in autonomy, but no increase in FLFP
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2023
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Authors: | Banerji, Abhik ; Batheja, Deepshikha ; Deolalikar, Anil B. |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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