Home Production & Women's Time Use

How the gendered division of domestic responsibilities influences
women's ability to productively engage in paid work outside the home

Collaborators:
Monisankar Bishnu (ISI Delhi Centre), Sisir Debnath (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi),
Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka University), E. Somanathan (ISI Delhi Centre)

Published/Working Papers

Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production – Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, Taryn Dinkelman and Komal Sareen; January 2023

Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection during a Pandemic – Farzana Afridi, Kanika Mahajan, and Nikita Sangwan; June 2021

What Determines Women’s Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norm – Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu, and Kanika Mahajan; August 2022


A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption – Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, and E. Somanathan; June 2021

Policy Briefs

Raising awareness to increase usage of LPG and other clean fuels: Summary of findings from study in Indore (MP)

Home Production, Technology, and Women’s Time Allocation in Rural India

Nudging Households to Increase the Usage of Clean Fuel (2020)

Modelling of Women’s Labour Supply Decisions in a Life-Cycle Framework

Nudging Households to Increase the Usage of Clean Fuel (2019)

How Educated, Urban Indian Women Spend Their Time