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 …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … for females. -- labour ; education ; gender ; bargaining …

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