, external validity, and test-retest reliability. The survey shows that the great majority of men and women favor women's labor … force participation, although support falls under specific scenarios. Most non?working women would like a job. Among married … women, the strongest correlates of working are the woman's expectations of her husband's views and the husband's personal …

Toilet ownership in India has grown in recent years, but open defecation can persist even when rural households own … latrines. There are at least two pathways through which social norms inhibit the use of toilets in rural India: (i) beliefs … purity that dissociate latrines from cleanliness. A survey in Uttar Pradesh, India, finds a positive correlation between …

of operations is consistently identified as a major issue. This paper uses a mixed methods approach to assess how women … entrepreneurs in Uganda start (and strive) operating firms in male-dominated sectors, and what hinders other women from doing so …. The study finds that women who cross over into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than women …

to test whether subjects reduce their income in order to keep it hidden. The analysis finds that women adopt an … expected earnings. This effect is largest among women with relatives attending the experiment. Parameter estimates suggest that … women behave as though they expect to be pressured to share four percent of their observable income with others, and …

lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that …The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … considered suitable for women. The paper develops a novel approach to capture the structure of employment at the village or town …

Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated … since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor … incomes and husband's education as well as the falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the demand side, the sectors …

participation in India; (ii) estimates the extent of the recent decline in female labor force participation; and (iii) examines and … decision and the recent the drop. The analysis finds that female labor force participation dropped by 19.6 million women from …-12. Approximately 53 percent of this drop occurred in rural India, among those ages 15 to 24 years. Factors such as educational …

This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest … rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training …

censuses and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends … since 2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the … some countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and …