Wage Work for Women: The Menstrual Cycle and the Power of Water
22 Pages Posted: 1 Mar 2010
Abstract
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.
Keywords: wage work, women, menopause, water engineering, rural development, China
JEL Classification: J16, J21, O15
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