The thesis attempts to evaluate three Indian development policies aimed at promoting women and historically … disadvantaged social groups. These policies are: job reservation for women in public workfare programs; women's political …

fertility pressures on women, which favored late female marriages already in the pre-industrial era. The resulting family and … household patterns placed women into a better position to struggle for more gender equality during the subsequent transitions …

, and Southeast Asia, Middle East & North Africa, and Latin America), the effect of women's employment on reported domestic … violence is estimated. An instrumental Variables technique is used to correct for the potential endogeneity of women …, these results turn out to be the opposite, which suggests that women's employment status has a negative influence on …

Enhancing women's participation in the labour force has been seen as a way to promote their empowerment which in turn … relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence is less clear-cut. Motivated by this ambiguity, this study … explores the effect of women's employment measured by their participation in paid work outside the home on reported spousal …

of service delivery and women's democratic participation. Using survey data from the Sangli district, Maharashtra, we … the democratic participation of the women in the female sarpanch villages, again driven by the impact of female sarpanchs … elected 3 1/2 years before the survey. The democratic participation of women, in turn, affects the availability of services …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … entry and exit in this context. Using a nationally representative panel dataset, we show that women are not only … corrects for selection bias due to initial employment and panel attrition, to investigate the determinants of women's entry …