This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … economic factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … economic factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and …

The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … economic opportunities. Unit level estimation results confirm that participation of poorly educated women is mainly determined …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …