%0 Report
        %A Afridi, Farzana
%A Dinkelman, Taryn
%A Mahajan, Kanika
        %T Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9722
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9722
        %X 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.
        %K decomposition analysis
%K female labor force participation
%K education
%K India