Data and Code for: "Women's Employment and Empowerment: Descriptive Evidence"

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Project Citation:

McKelway, Madeline. Data and Code for: “Women’s Employment and Empowerment: Descriptive Evidence.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-01-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E169002V1

Project Description

Summary: It is widely believed that female employment and empowerment are intimately related. This paper presents relationships between women’s employment and various measures of their empowerment, using data from rural India. The measures capture several dimensions of empowerment, including control in economic decision-making, psychosocial aspects of empowerment, and women’s own internalization of a lesser status. A number of these measures correlate positively with women’s employment, supporting the notion that female employment and empowerment are closely linked.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Women's employment; Women's empowerment; Descriptive analyses

JEL Classification:
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J20 Demand and Supply of Labor: General
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Geographic Coverage: Uttar Pradesh, India

Time Period(s): 2017 – 2018

Collection Date(s): 8/19/2017 – 8/26/2017 (Baseline data); 2/11/2018 – 2/21/2018 (Participation data); 1/9/2018 – 2/8/2018 (Endline data)

Universe: Women who were married, aged 18 to 40, and eligible for the female employment opportunity with the partner firm.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; survey data

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V1 [2023-01-23]

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