Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the
lives of Indian women, and yet female labor force participation has stagnated at under 30 …

We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of providing richer information
about prospective jobs to vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of …

BACKGROUND Due to its young age structure and taboos on widow remarriage, India has a
large and relatively young female widow population. Many of India's widows are in prime …

Women's employment is widely seen as a way to give women more agency in their
households. While there exists non-experimental evidence to support this hypothesis, I …

ABSTRACT In many South Asian countries, recent improvement in girls' education has not
been reflected in increased labour force participation. We hypothesise girls' agency as a …

One of the central insights of development economics literature is that structural change is a
fundamental feature of economic growth (Kuznets, 1973), where the transition to modern …

This paper studies how disadvantaged young job seekers in rural India weigh up job
location and salary in their decisions to join a training program with guaranteed placement …

How does the temporary absence of men from the household due to migration affect female
political engagement? While studies on gender and politics have established the centrality …

Youth unemployment is a crucial issue in many developing countries. The issue is more
concerning for rural youth, as they face more information friction regarding jobs, which are …

This paper investigates the paradoxical relationship between economic liberalization and
female labor force participation (FLPR) in India. Despite significant advancements in …