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...
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تفاصيل
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2020/8/05
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS9350
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2020/8/05
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Disclosed
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Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India
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female labor force participation