In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a course, and we show how … gender-aware content and pedagogical tools can complement a course based on a standard textbook or set of articles. We also …

share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done … families with young children have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare. Women have been doing the greater …

paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending … partners and that they are spending a larger fraction of their paid work hours having to juggle work and childcare. Gender … differences in the allocation of domestic work cannot be straightforwardly explained by gender differences in employment rates or …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and …

the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …