In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …