Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India
Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, women's labor force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. This paper uses nationwide, individual-level data allow to explore whether random...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/735251596630412809/Political-Reservation-and-Female-Labor-Force-Participation-in-Rural-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34282 |
| Summary: | Despite income growth, fertility
decline, and educational expansion, women's labor force
participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the
last decade. This paper uses nationwide, individual-level
data allow to explore whether random reservation of village
leadership for women affected their access to suitable job
opportunities, demand for participation in the labor force,
and income as well as intrahousehold bargaining in the short
and medium term. Political empowerment through reservation
affected women's but not men's participation in
public works, but also women's participation in labor
markets, income, and participation in key household
decisions, with a lag. |
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