with a focus on domestic gender relations. We find that, despite increased labor market participation, women's household …Women's share of agricultural wage employment is rising across the Indian sub-continent. Studies examining this process … status remains acutely depressed. Women laborers, with access to productive assets, however, are effectively reworking gender …

We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …

In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra-household … on intra-household decision-making, albeit with substantial decay rates, and thus benefit from targeted rather than … bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends …

allocates more time to paid work and less time to household production. The effect is evident for the daughters-in-law who co …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household …-in-law's presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law's engagement in paid work and increases both women's time spent on …

Using an innovative data-set that involved 90 poor women logging-in daily household financial diaries for a period of … eleven months in 2008-09 in the town of Ramanagaram, Karnataka, India; we address the following question – do women use money … differently from men? Comparing weekly cash-expenses of 19 women headed households with similar male-headed households; we arrived …