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 …

Using unique, representative data on domestic violence, we document several stylized facts on abuse: the average …-violent marriages, the vast majority of violent marriages end in divorce, and employment rates are lower for women who experience abuse … in the decision to divorce and witnessing violence as a child is a strong predictor of becoming an abusive spouse. Policy …

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

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

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 …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …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 …

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to … global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains …