TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bedi, Arjun S.
AU  - Majilla, Tanmoy
AU  - Rieger, Matthias
        TI  - Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty: Experimental Evidence from India
        PY  - 2018/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11360
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11360
        AB  - This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the Indian labor market. We randomly reported motherhood on fictitious CVs sent to service sector job openings. We generated exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal origin. Mothers of matrilineal origin face no such penalty. We discuss the results in relation to the competing influence of ethnicity, the Indian context and theories of discrimination.
        KW  - gender
KW  - culture
KW  - motherhood penalty
KW  - ethnic discrimination
KW  - field experiment
KW  - India
        ER  -