Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India: Does Political Empowerment Make a Difference?
利用印度全国个体数据，研究随机将村庄领导职位保留给女性是否在短期和中期影响了女性的就业机会、劳动力参与需求、收入及家庭内部议价能力，发现这种保留制度通过改变社会规范和刻板印象产生了滞后效应。
Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to job opportunities, their demand for participation in the labour force, and income as well as intra-household bargaining in the short-and medium term. Gender reservation of local leadership affected female but not male participation in public works and regular labour markets, their income, and their influence on key household decisions with a lag, suggesting that such reservation affected social norms and stereotypes.