"The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …

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 …

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

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …

is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … economic factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and …