India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …

and male workers. The wage analysis reveals that, on average, the gender wage gap has been lowest in routine cognitive …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …