Rapid fertility decline, a strong expansion of female education, and favorable economic conditions should have promoted female labor force participation in developing countries. Yet trends in femal...

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/175179/1/1014708427.pdf

What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries

Assessing the determinants and drivers of multidimensional energy poverty in Ghana

Preface l. Land rights for women: making the case 2. Conceptualizing gender relations 3. Customary rights and associated practices 4. Erosion and disinheritance: traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities today 5. Contemporary law: contestation and content 6. Whose share? Who claims? The gap between law and practice 7. Whose land? Who commands? The gap between ownership and control 8. Tracing cross-regional diversities 9. Struggles over resources, struggles over meanings l0. The long march ahead.

A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia.

Compound natural and human disasters: Managing drought and COVID-19 to sustain global agriculture and food sectors

COVID-19 and Food Security: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria

This paper looks at the disruption in food supply chains due to COVID-19 induced economic shutdown in India. We use a novel dataset from one of the largest online grocery retailers to look at the impact on product stockouts and prices. We find that product availability falls by 10% for vegetables, fruits, and edible oils, but there is a minimal impact on their prices. On the farm-gate side, it is matched by a 20% fall in quantity arrivals of vegetables and fruits. We then show that supply chain disruption is the main driver behind this fall. We compute the distance to production zones from our retail centers and find that the fall in product availability and quantity arrivals is larger for items that are cultivated or manufactured farther from the final point of sale. Our results show that long-distance food supply chains have been hit the hardest during the current pandemic with welfare consequences for urban consumers and farmers.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajae.12158

COVID-19 and Supply Chain Disruption: Evidence from Food Markets in India .

Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades. We use parametric and semi-parametric decomposition techniques to show that changes in individual and household attributes fully account for the fall in women's labor force participation rate in 1987-1999 and account for half of the decline in this rate in 1999-2009. Our findings underscore increasing education levels amongst rural married women and the men in their households as the most prominent attributes contributing to this decline. We provide suggestive evidence that a rise in more educated women's returns to home production, relative to their returns in the labor market, may have adversely affected female labor force participation rates in India.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/dp9722.pdf?abstractid=2731985&mirid=4

Why are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis Over Two Decades

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/141481/1/dp9722.pdf

Why are fewer married women joining the work force in rural India? A decomposition analysis over two decades

Rainfall Shocks and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Indian Agriculture

The gender wage gap is notable not just for its persistence and ubiquity but also for its variation across regions and countries. A natural question is how greater workforce participation by women matters to female wages and the gender wage gap. Within India, a seeming paradox is that gender differentials in agricultural wages are the largest in southern regions of India that are otherwise favorable to women. Ester Boserup hypothesized that this is due to greater labor force participation by women in these regions. This is not obvious, as greater female labor supply could depress male wages as well. Other factors also need to be accounted for, especially since women have fewer opportunities for nonfarm employment. This article undertakes a formal test of the Boserup proposition. We find that differences in female labor supply are able to explain 55% of the gender wage gap between northern and southern states of India. The article also finds that women gain from greater nonfarm employment, even if ...

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Kanika Mahajan

Papers

COVID-19 and Supply Chain Disruption: Evidence from Food Markets in India .

Why are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis Over Two Decades

Why are fewer married women joining the work force in rural India? A decomposition analysis over two decades

Rainfall Shocks and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Indian Agriculture

Caste, Female Labor Supply and the Gender Wage Gap in India: Boserup Revisited