Do Labor Market Opportunities Affect Young Women's Work and Family Decisions? Experimental Evidence from India

By Robert T. Jensen. 2012

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future (2016, positive): “More recently, Jensen (2012) finds that young women in rural India with more labor market opportunities were significantly less likely to get married and have children.”
How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence (2017, background): “We have seen that some of the more successful screening and matching interventions were ones that provided assistance with learning about job opportunities in a different location (Jensen 2012), or subsidizing job searches in different parts of the city (Franklin 2015; Abebe et al. 2016a).”
When the money runs out: Do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation? (2016, neutral): “…safe and well-paying jobs existed for women in Malawi, households might invest in the necessary human capital of adolescent females on their own – perhaps even without the help of any outside interventions (Heath and Mobarak 2015; Jensen 2012; Munshi and Rosenzweig 2006; Oster and Steinberg 2013).”
Women’s Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh (2014, positive): “Indeed, there are both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence that females’ access to labor market opportunities decreases early marriage and childbearing (Singh and Samara 1996; Jensen 2012) and improves women’s bargaining power within the household (Dharmalingam and Morgan 1996; Rahman and R”
Gender Socialization during Adolescence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Conceptualization, influences and outcomes (2017, background): “…social programmes have successfully utilized mass media to increase knowledge and modify harmful social and health behaviours and practices, and these strategies can potentially be used to actively influence gender socialization processes as well (Le Ferrara, Chong & Duryea, 2012; Jensen, 2012).”
Economic development, structural change, and women’s labor force participation: (2013, positive): “…labor force participation has profoundly influenced the academic discipline as many scholars motivate and interpret research findings in light of the seemingly uncontroversial feminization U hypothesis (examples include Bloom et al. 2009; Agüero and Marks 2011; Jensen 2012; Rees and Riezman 2012).”
Labor market opportunities and women's decision making power within households (2016, background): “Jensen (2012) looks at the effects of increases in women’s labor force opportunities in rural India and finds that young women in treatment villages were significantly less likely to get married and more likely to enter the labor market or gain more schooling or training. ing women’s aggregate…”