Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
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 …