Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?

Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to j...

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Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37044