show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …

) 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. …

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …

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 … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

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

minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …

example, social norms. In periods in which married women enjoy greater outside options (e.g., by increasing their labor force … using data from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of Mature Women, the NLS Young Women, and the NLSY79. The prediction …