We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment …In low- and middle-income countries, differences between men and women in their time use patterns represent a major …. Using georeferenced and longitudinal data, we find that the flood decreased women's time spent on domestic work while …

via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to …

husbands regarding the role of females are a key obstacle to a higher labor force participation of young women in Bangladesh …About 50% of Bangladesh's female youth working-age population is not in employment, education, or training (NEET … goal in Bangladesh and other countries from the Global South. In this study, we analyze the social basis of support for …

job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men …