We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …

We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and … as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …

We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and …, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, singleparent essential workers experience relatively large negative labour …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit … level data of India for the year 2011-12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …

Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly …. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … activated either of these mechanisms. I analyze structural changes from 1982/83 to 2011/12 to show that India's high …

-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal …

, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper …

employment rates in 1970 in a female migrant's province of origin affects her labor supply behavior in 2008. We also show that it … is the female employment rates and not male in the province of origin in 1970 that affects the current labor supply …