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Cinderella No More: Night Shift Bans and Women's Employment in India

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  • Kaur, Sarvnipun
  • Arora, Anshika
  • Singh, Prakarsh

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Night-shift bans prevent women from working nights on equal terms with men. Though most countries repealed such bans, India retains gender-based restrictions. After 2017, several states permitted women in service-establishments to work nightshifts under administrative requirements. Exploiting this staggered rollout, we find reforms reshaped female employment composition without affecting its level. Women in treated-states were 10.1% more likely to be employed in services and 5.3% less likely in non-services. This effect is stronger in safer districts, robust to placebos and contemporaneous manufacturing reforms. Lifting this constraint may expand employment, but administrative-costs can offset these gains. We find the former dominates.

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  • Kaur, Sarvnipun & Arora, Anshika & Singh, Prakarsh, 2026. "Cinderella No More: Night Shift Bans and Women's Employment in India," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1791, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:glodps:1791
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J78 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Public Policy (including comparable worth)
    • K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law

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