Replication data for: Male Social Status and Women's Work

Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have shown that gender norms can help explain these differences in women's work, but the channels through which norms impact women's employment decisions are not well understood. We present novel data on spouses' preferences and perceptions of community attitudes about female labor in rural India and document associations with female work. We find that the perceived social cost of women's work falls on men and that husbands' opposition to female labor is associated with their wives' lower take-up of employment.

即便经济发展水平相近的国家，女性劳动力参与率仍存在显著差异。近期研究表明，性别规范可用于解释女性就业领域的此类差异，但学界对性别规范影响女性就业决策的具体传导路径仍缺乏充分认知。本研究提供了印度农村地区配偶双方关于女性劳动的偏好，以及双方对社区女性劳动态度的认知的全新数据集，并记录了上述因素与女性就业之间的关联。研究发现，女性劳动所引发的感知社会成本由男性承担，且丈夫对女性就业的反对态度与妻子更低的就业参与率显著相关。