Replication data for: Male Social Status and Women's Work

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Arielle Bernhardt; Erica Field; Rohini Pande; Natalia Rigol; Simone Schaner; Charity Troyer-Moore

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Project Citation:

Bernhardt, Arielle, Field, Erica, Pande, Rohini, Rigol, Natalia, Schaner, Simone, and Troyer-Moore, Charity. Replication data for: Male Social Status and Women’s Work. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114477V1

Project Description

Summary: Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have shown that gender norms can help explain these differences in women's work, but the channels through which norms impact women's employment decisions are not well understood. We present novel data on spouses' preferences and perceptions of community attitudes about female labor in rural India and document associations with female work. We find that the perceived social cost of women's work falls on men and that husbands' opposition to female labor is associated with their wives' lower take-up of employment.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

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