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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2010
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4776
Verlag: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
We hypothesise that women's participation in wage (off-farm) work is reduced when their greater water needs due to the menstrual cycle are not met because their household has poor access to water. For testing, we use the data from rural villages in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work participation of affected (pre-menopause) women by about 10 percentage points, a large effect. As expected, there is no adverse causal impact of poor household access to water for women post-menopause, or for men, ceteris paribus.
Schlagwörter: 
Wage work
women
menopause
water engineering
rural development
China
JEL: 
J16
J21
O15
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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