) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of … average is calculated leaving the concerned household. We find no impact of LPG on the probability of women participating in … spent in cooking and employment is mostly driven by married women …

The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further …, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …

Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a …-production services. Immigrant labor has increasingly become a substitute for women labor in those services. Their presence, therefore …, may allow women over 55 to work more outside of the house and retire later. We use a unique database of Italian households …

India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …

expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India …

This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … biases in education spending are a within-household phenomenon in rural India …

child labor. A unique data set from India that has child labor hours information confirms this hypothesis. It is shown that …

India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …