Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58667 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6209
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women's employment decisions. 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 main results provide compelling evidence that women's likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict.
Subjects: 
conflict
women's employment
added worker effect
geography
Nepal
JEL: 
J21
O12
D74
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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