Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed … countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood …. This study examines how extending the maternity leave requirement affects women's decisions to work in the informal or …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it … longer exposure to women's suffrage. …

agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. We use …-studies, we find that education is not a driver of female labour participation in low-skilled jobs. Women from wealthier … dominance reduce women's labour force participation. Women who earn off-farm income are strengthened in their intra …

techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The …Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household …

ambiguous. Maternal employment, through mothers' exposure to wider social networks and greater bargaining may also be associated …

The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries …. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty … paper, we use primary data from India, collected via a life history calendar administered to men and women separately. Using …