This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by …

Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed … countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood …. This study examines how extending the maternity leave requirement affects women's decisions to work in the informal or …

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and … high-resolution georeferenced data, we find systematically less violence against women in traditionally sea-fishing areas …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … groups of women and men are compared. We use the national representative Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey for 2008 … sector for women of childbearing age without infant children; however, this narrowing is very small. Industry …

The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries … paper, we use primary data from India, collected via a life history calendar administered to men and women separately. Using … an event study method, we estimate the impact of the first childbirth on women's labour market participation. Our main …