We study the impact of gender norms on the distribution of paid and unpaid labor between women and men in an intra …

vs. B. Women respond strongly to the salience of Norms; they opt for Career at a significantly lower rate compared to …

The stubbornly low and declining level of labor force participation rate (LFPR) of Indian women has prompted a great … deal of attention with a focus on factors constraining women's labour supply. Using 12 rounds of a high frequency household … panel survey, we demonstrate volatility in Indian women's labour market engagement, as they exit and (re)enter the labor …

Mainstream literature attributes the decline in female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) in India between 2004 … period of decline in FLFPR has also been a period of "jobless growth". We show that women have borne the brunt of the … stagnant employment creation from 2004-05 onwards. Our analysis suggests that India needs to focus on creating rural non …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre …

brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the … intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized …