traditional gender norms. These findings suggest that expectations regarding returns in the marriage market may influence women …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre …

have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more … tilling, we show that mechanization has led to significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor on Indian farms …. Reduced demand for labor in weeding, a task that requires precision and is thus more often undertaken by women, explains our …

explained by social costs emanating from gender norms that constrain women's access to non-farm work opportunities. The results … gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data …, we find that women's workdays fall by 11% more than men's when a drought occurs, driven by former's lack of …

. In contrast, women did not experience any significant impact on employment during pandemic, as reported by their husbands … affected wives more than husbands. In contrast, women staying employed during the pandemic is associated with worse mental … stress for women relative to men, possibly due to the 'home-based' nature of women's networks. …

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force … reinforces (conservative) social norms about women's (outside) work. …

In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass … nudges towards cleaner energy use at home are unlikely to generate transformative shifts in women's home production time. …

We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non …-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over …

areas in April-August 2020 by 7% overall and by 74% for rural women, over baseline employment rate. These cushioning effects … strengthened as the mobility restrictions eased and were larger for women who were less mobile and less skilled. Our results …

via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and … for females. -- labour ; education ; gender ; bargaining …

We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of … India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … highlight capacity building as necessary for bolstering the effectiveness of political quotas for women. -- political …