Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the …

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases … primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …