Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2015
Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated … since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor … force participation hovered around 18 percent. Analysis of five large cross-sectional micro surveys shows that a combination …