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Daughter vs. Daughter-in-Law: Kinship Roles and Women's Time Use in India

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  • Gupta, Tanu
  • Negi, Digvijay S.

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The custom of patrilocal marriage shifts a woman from her natal family to being part of her husband's household. This shift and the associated change in kinship role has implications for her participation and time use in paid and unpaid work. In this paper, we compare the participation decision and time use in different activities of married and unmarried women in India. Our comparison group for married women or the daughters-in-law within the household is the unmarried daughters of comparable age and educational qualification. We hypothesize that conditional on age, educational attainment and other observable characteristics, the differences in time devoted to domestic activities and caregiving of these women are due to differences in their status and hierarchy in the household. We find that compared to daughters, daughters-in-law spend more time in home production and less time in paid employment, learning, socializing, leisure and self-care. Moreover, they also spend more time on religious activities, which suggests that not all women may bear equal responsibility for producing status goods for the household and that this responsibility may invariably fall on the daughters-in-law.
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  • Gupta, Tanu & Negi, Digvijay S., 2021. "Daughter vs. Daughter-in-Law: Kinship Roles and Women's Time Use in India," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 313373, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea21:313373
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313373
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    1. Tanu Gupta, 2022. "Women's inheritance rights and time use: Evidence from Hindu Succession Act in India," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-20, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Priyanka Adhikary & Gitau Mburu & Rita Kabra & Ndema Abu Habib & James Kiarie & Neeta Dhabhai & Ranadip Chowdhury & Sarmila Mazumder, 2024. "Intersectional analysis of the experiences of women who fail to conceive in low and middle income neighbourhoods of Delhi, India: Findings from a qualitative study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(7), pages 1-18, July.
    3. R. Vijayamba & Madhura Swaminathan, 2024. "Women’s Work in Livestock Raising: Evidence from Time Use Surveys in India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 67(3), pages 709-729, September.
    4. Pushpendra Singh & Falguni Pattanaik & Archana Singh, 2023. "Beyond the Clock: Exploring the Complexities of Women’s Domestic Roles in India Through the Lenses of Daughters and Daughters-in-Law," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 66(2), pages 535-559, June.

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    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • 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
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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