This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …

-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …

, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is … uncounted in the current System of National Accounts definition of labour. However, women still undertake less paid work than …

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 …

We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help … men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states …

India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares …

Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for … women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … status, and for those residing in Northern India. We present evidence to suggest that women with higher education levels are … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic …

Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women's low labour force participation. In … developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are … leads to mismeasurement of women's work. Religion and visible markers such as veiling are not significant determinants of …

Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated that poor women have been the worst sufferers in terms … of pay cuts and job losses. Women are the hardest hit also at the household level. They have to bear the brunt of … paper on the gender impact of the pandemic and the consequent lockdowns and curfews in the city of Delhi, India, seeks to …