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Does co-residence with parents-in-law reduce women's employment in India?
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023
We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …
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ICT skills and labor market outcomes in India : evidence from cell tower expansion
Azam, Mehtabul; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2024
participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …
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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
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The Indian enigma revisited
Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
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Chapter 67 Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Southeast Asia
Estudillo, Jonna P.; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3435-3468). 2010
employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … sources away from farm to nonfarm activities. Increased participation in nonfarm employment has been more pronounced among the …
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Push or pull? : drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …
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'Opt Out' or Kept Out? The Effect of Stigma, Structure, Selection, and Sector on the Labor Force Participation of Married Women in India
Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2020
Using the two consecutive thick rounds of National Sample Survey data, we investigate the role of stigma, the economy's structure, potential selection bias, and sectoral differences in explaining the low labor force participation (LFP) of middle and secondary educated women in India relative to...
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Returns to education and female work force participation Nexus : evidence from India
Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2018
for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit …
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 2012
, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109425