mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the … regions differ markedly with regard to cultural orientations towards working mothers. Our comparison therefore allows drawing … mothers who were born and raised in the east, but had their first child after moving to the west provide us with key insights …

provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … there are solid employment patterns of mothers, which change across cohorts for instance resulting in more part time …

. We study a conditional cash transfer program (JSY) in India that paid women to give birth in medical facilities. We find …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the … mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health … Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor …

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India - Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …