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 … in the recent literature. However, no study so far has looked into the dynamics of employment in terms of labour force …

development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …

. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

in the 6-10 age group. Using a household-level longitudinal survey covering 43 villages in a poor state in India, we find … more likely to enter the labour force). Further, using a nationally representative survey for India (National Sample Survey …

India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other …

crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without …

investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of … in adult life, including labour force participation, nature of employment, and earnings. Thus our findings reveal how …