Family structure, education and women’s employment in rural India

Dhanaraj, Sowmya; Mahambare, Vidya

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.11.004

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“…Specifically, Afridi et al () estimate women's labour market participation to be approximately 33 per cent in 2011 using the NSS data. As suggested by Desai () and Dhanaraj and Mahambare (), this difference most likely has to do with how participation in labour market of women has been captured in the two surveys. Specifically, Desai () note:…”

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Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

Dhamija

Roychowdhury

2020

J of Intl Development

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We examine the relationship between women's age at marriage and their labour market outcomes using nationally representative household data from India. Employing an instrumental variable‐based empirical strategy, we find that a delay in women's age at marriage has no significant causal effect on their labour market outcomes. This is despite marriage delay being associated with higher education, lower fertility and (possibly) higher dowry for Indian women. We argue that this might be because older brides, as compared with younger brides, face more backlash from their partners. This backlash effect could be offsetting the positive labour market effects of marriage delay. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

Dhamija

Roychowdhury

2020

J of Intl Development

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“…26 26 Our use of co‐residence with the MIL as a proxy for a woman's access to her network is motivated by Posadas and Vidal‐Fernandez (2013), Debnath (2015), and Dhanaraj and Mahambare (2019) who employ a range of family structure‐based instruments (e.g., death of the woman's father‐in‐law, co‐residence with the father‐in‐law, co‐residence with other matriarchal figures [grandmothers], and joint family residence) as proxies for women's access, mobility, potential for employment outside the home, and empowerment. …”

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Curse of the Mummy‐ji: The Influence of Mothers‐in‐Law on Women in India^†

Anukriti¹,

Herrera‐Almanza

Pathak³

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American J Agri Economics

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Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit women's access to and benefits from social networks, especially in patrilocal societies. We characterize young married women's social networks in rural India and analyze how inter‐generational power dynamics within the household affect their network formation. Using primary data from Uttar Pradesh, we show that co‐residence with the mother‐in‐law is negatively correlated with her daughter‐in‐law's mobility and ability to form social connections outside the household, especially those related to health, fertility, and family planning. Our findings suggest that the mother‐in‐law's restrictive behavior is potentially driven by the misalignment of fertility preferences between the mother‐in‐law and the daughter‐in‐law. The lack of peers outside the household lowers the daughter‐in‐law's likelihood of visiting a family planning clinic and of using modern contraception. We find suggestive evidence that this is because outside peers (a) positively influence daughter‐in‐law's beliefs about the social acceptability of family planning and (b) enable the daughter‐in‐law to overcome mobility constraints by accompanying her to health clinics.

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“…Therefore, we can conclude that there is a link between the family structure and the education level but conferring to Cramer's V it's only a weak association. This outcome is quite surprising since we expected stronger impact of educational which was conducted important (in both, positive and negative ways) in several studies aimed at lifestyle (Rindermann and Ceci, 2018;Dhanaraj and Mahambare, 2019). We believe, that reason can be connected with the fact, that woman's educational level usually don't affect their decisions about design of their family relations and therefore structure of members in their household and vice versa.…”

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Structure of Slovak Families and Womans Attitudes towards Its Impact on Their Employment

2021

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Research background: The disadvantaged position of women in the labor market is a well-known fact. However, there are also differences between women themselves, which put certain groups in an even more disadvantaged position compared to others. Women entered the paid workforce after centuries of “quiet revolution” (McManus and Johnson, 2020) and still they remain more likely to be in insecure employment, work varying hours or short hours, and dominate in particular sectors (Wilson, 2019). Purpose of the article: Our study aimed at the analysis of the link between structure of family (household) Slovak woman live in and their attitudes towards its impact on their employment. Methods: The Chi-square statistic as a non-parametric test to analyze group differences was used on the attained questionnaire and a Cramer’s V as the most common strength test was used to test the association between the data after the significant Chi-square results has been obtained. Findings & Value added: Recently, the interest of researchers worldwide is aimed at the disadvantaged position of woman on the labor market compared to man. They focus mainly on the wage gap and other inequalities, since most of these studies has quantitative character with the focus of post hoc status description. Our article aimed at the similar topic but is based on the attitudes of the women themselves and their expectations in relation to this issue. We are therefore trying to quantify qualitatively based research, which is unique both in Slovakia and abroad.

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Family structure, education and women’s employment in rural India

Abstract: This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER Visiting Scholar programme.

Cited by 68 publications

References 35 publications

Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

Curse of the Mummy‐ji: The Influence of Mothers‐in‐Law on Women in India^†

Structure of Slovak Families and Womans Attitudes towards Its Impact on Their Employment

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Family structure, education and women’s employment in rural India

Abstract: This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER Visiting Scholar programme.

Cited by 68 publications

References 35 publications

Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

Curse of the Mummy‐ji: The Influence of Mothers‐in‐Law on Women in India†

Structure of Slovak Families and Womans Attitudes towards Its Impact on Their Employment

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