Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (57 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chen, Yutong Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Female Time Use: Evidence from India's Pink Slip Program
Keywords:
Difference in Differences Specifications
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Fiscal and Monetary Policy
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Gender
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Labor Supply
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Low Skilled Labor
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Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
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Transportation Cost
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Travel Subsidies
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Unemployed Women
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Women in The Workforce
Abstract:
This paper estimates a synthetic difference-in-differences specification on the roll-out of a program providing free bus transit for women in several Indian states, to examine the impact on women's time allocation and labor supply. Household expenditures on buses fall and women save time on travel. However, there is substantial heterogeneity. Skilled employed women increase labor supply and reduce time on household chores. Low-skilled married women increase time on household activities and reduce labor supply. Unemployed women increase job search with no effect on employment. The findings show that gender roles within households undermine the effect of gender-specific travel subsidies on female labor supply
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-10701
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