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War and Women's Work : Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal / Nidhiya Menon
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Menon, Nidhiya
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Added Worker Effect.
- Conflict.
- Female Labor Supply.
- Gender.
- Gender and Law.
- Instrumental Variables.
- Labor Markets.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Migration.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Regional Economic Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Nepal.
- Local Subjects:
- Added Worker Effect.
- Conflict.
- Female Labor Supply.
- Gender.
- Gender and Law.
- Instrumental Variables.
- Labor Markets.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Migration.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Regional Economic Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Nepal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (49 pages)
- Other Title:
- War and Women's Work
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2011
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, the authors employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women's employment decisions. The results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency, women's employment probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. These employment results also hold for self-employment decisions, and they hold for smaller sub-samples that condition on husband's migration status and women's status as widows or household heads. Numerous robustness checks of the difference-in-difference estimates based on alternative empirical methods provide compelling evidence that women's likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict.
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