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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2008

The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...

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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

on the role of inter-temporal changes in fertility behaviour in influencing female labor market outcomes. Our …. We further investigated the impact of fertility changes on transitions from the labor market. The results show that women … probability of dropping-out of the labor market due to fertility changes is greater for non-poor women and those from socially …

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What drives women participation in unpaid work in India?

Kumar, Manik; Singh, Udai Bhan; Kumar, Nilesh - In: Thailand and the world economy 41 (2023) 2, pp. 137-155

The primary goal of this paper is to examine the factors that bear on the greater participation of women in unpaid activities in India. The study is based on the employment-unemployment survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)in 2011-12, and NSS Report Numbers 550 and 559....

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Fertility and mothers' labour force participation in rural India

Gupta, Isha - 2020

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Son Preference and Children's Housework : The Case of India

Lin, Tin-Chi - 2012

as other types of work) in addition to hours. Third, we use mother's fertility intentions as an alternative measure of …

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Son preference and children's housework : the case of India

Lin, Tin-chi; Adserà, Alícia - 2012

as other types of work) in addition to hours. Third, we use mother's fertility intentions as an alternative measure of …

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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 labor markets on child nutrition (the standardized height for age). Our study differs from previous research in two important aspects: it explores malnutrition using a quantile...

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School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers : A Joint Multilevel Model for India

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - 2021

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother's working status when the mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the mother's participation and the schooling status of her...

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Urban Female Labor Force Participation and Its Correlates : A Comparative Study of Slum-Dwellers and Their Urban Counterparts of Three Metro Cities in India

Bag, Sugata - 2020

This paper deals with an important but neglected aspect of female labor force participation (LFP) in urban India. Contemporary literature that deals with urban female LFP in India typically focuses on the entire urban sector, and invariably misses out one important aspect of urban living – the...

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The Relation between Child Labour and Mothers' Work : The Case of India

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2021

The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women's rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...

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