자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017162978

International Standard Book Number  

9798384341246

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

362.1

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Jalota, Suhani.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : Stanford University., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

211 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Miller, Grant;Voena, Alessandra.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약In my dissertation, titled "Essays on Women's Employment, Poverty, and Health Outcomes (with evidence from India)," I study the trade-offs people make between employment, social norms, and well-being and health outcomes, particularly for women. I also examine the role of technology solutions in shifting women's labor market outcomes. Using a combination of randomized control trials and longitudinal household survey data, I analyze the economic, social, and health-related factors influencing employment decisions for the poor.The first chapter highlights the strong link between poverty, health, and employment outcomes. For poor households, health shocks that lead to work absences can create a significant economic burden. Therefore, implementing wage loss insurance could help increase employment among the poor without pushing them further into debt due to illness.In the second and third chapters, my co-author Lisa Ho and I examine the barriers constraining women out of the workforce in India and explore potential strategies to increase their labor force participation. We design and offer digital jobs made up of back-end piece-rate work to women currently out of the workforce to perform on their own smartphones. As the settings have strong social norms against women's paid work, we design jobs complying with existing norms. Through two large-scale randomized field experiments, one in Mumbai and the other in West Bengal, we alter the job contracts women are offered in order to effects on job take-up. Given that more than 75% of women of working age are out of the workforce in India, entry into the workforce itself is a first-order concern.We find that women's high fixed costs of entry can be overcome through home-based jobs and by providing women safe local office spaces. Once women enter the workforce, even with home-based jobs, they are more willing to work outside the home through a "gateway effect." Our experimental evidence uncovers the complex dynamics affecting women's employment decisions and in helping close the large gender gap in labor force participation in settings with strong social norms, such as India.

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Health care access.

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Socioeconomic factors.

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Poverty.

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Health surveys.

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Low income groups.

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Illnesses.

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Inequality.

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Households.

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Towns.

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Disability studies.

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Health sciences.

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Social structure.

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Sociology.

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Stanford University.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-03B.

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