TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Afridi, Farzana
AU  - Dinkelman, Taryn
AU  - Mahajan, Kanika
        TI  - Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades
        PY  - 2016/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9722
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9722
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - decomposition analysis
KW  - female labor force participation
KW  - education
KW  - India
        ER  -