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Presented By: Department of Economics

Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Women’s Employment

Madeline McKelway, Dartmouth College

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I study the effects of female employment opportunities on women and households in India. I randomized whether women’s husbands and parents-in-law were shown a video promoting a job for women. The promotion made family members view the job more favorably and increased women’s take-up of it. In the short-run, I find positive effects on women’s empowerment in household decision-making, null effects on psychosocial dimensions of empowerment, suggestive evidence of increases in daughters’ studies, and a drop in time women spent on leisure but not household chores. Perhaps because chores were not reallocated, the effect on employment did not persist.

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