@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp9722,
            	author={Afridi, Farzana and Dinkelman, Taryn and Mahajan, Kanika},
            	title={Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades},
            	year={2016},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={9722},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9722},
	abstract={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.},
	keywords={decomposition analysis;female labor force participation;education;India},
            }