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Learning from Job Offers about Labor Supply Constraints: A Barrier for Women without Work Experience

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  • Lisa Ho
  • Suhani Jalota
  • Anahita Karandikar

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Labor market surveys often include individuals outside the workforce, but respondents who lack work experience may have inaccurate beliefs about their labor supply preferences and constraints. Using data from an incentivized job preferences elicitation in West Bengal, India, we show that women who are out of the labor force make costly mistakes in assessing whether they would take up future hypothetical jobs. Receiving an employment offer and navigating the subsequent decision process improves women's prediction accuracy. Heterogeneity analysis is more consistent with learning about external constraints such as other household members' preferences rather than internal constraints such as own abilities.

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  • Lisa Ho & Suhani Jalota & Anahita Karandikar, 2025. "Learning from Job Offers about Labor Supply Constraints: A Barrier for Women without Work Experience," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 115, pages 297-302, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:115:y:2025:p:297-302
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20251129
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    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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