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Heterogeneous Effects of Maternal Labor Market Participation on Nutritional Status of Children : Empirical Evidence From Rural India

Diiro, Gracious - 2014

We use a nationally representative dataset from India to investigate the causal effects of maternal participation in … effect of maternal work on child nutrition in India. The quantile estimates provide evidence of large heterogeneity in the …

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Women Workers in India : Why so Few Among so Many?

Das, Sonali - 2015

This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having … of policy initiatives can help boost female economic participation in the states of India, including increased labor …

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Dropping Out, Being Pushed Out or Can't Get in? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women

Deshpande, Ashwini; Singh, Jitendra - 2021

increase in household income and conservative social norms. Our results suggest that India needs to focus more on creating jobs …

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Women and Finance

Capelle-Blancard, Gunther; Reberioux, Antoine - 2021

This literature review brings together the main results of gender studies in finance. We first examine possible gender differences in financial preferences and attitudes, as well as stereotypes against women. We then discuss the consequences in terms of saving and portfolio choices, careers in...

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A Study on Productivity & Empowerment of Women Intensive Sericulture Sector of West Bengal

Roy, Chandan - 2021

Sericulture is a women intensive sector where 60% of the workers are either family workers or hired female workers. Productive skill makes the presence of women invincible both in pre and post cocoon sectors. This larger participation is expected to raise their level of empowerment too. Higher...

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Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women

Kim, Wookun - 2021

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the eﬀects of pro-natalist ﬁnancial incentives on babies. I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers provided to families with newborn babies and the universe of birth, death, and migrant registry records in South Korea. I...

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Bring a friend : strengthening women's social networks and reproductive autonomy in India

Anukriti, S; Herrera, Catalina; Karra, Mahesh - 2022

networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for …

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Reproductive burden and its impact on female labor market outcomes in India : Evidence from longitudinal analyses

Tiwari, Chhavi; Goli, Srinivas; Rammohan, Anu - 2021

We use nationally representative data from two waves of the Indian Human Development Survey to provide causal evidence on the role of inter-temporal changes in fertility behaviour in influencing female labor market outcomes. Our multivariate regression estimates show that an increase in the...

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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

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 …

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The gendered crisis : livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2021

urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post …

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