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

-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

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

This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may … have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from …

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 …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …