Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pubali Chakraborty 
Author-Name-First: Pubali 
Author-Name-Last: Chakraborty
Author-Email: pchakraborty@bates.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Bates College
Author-Workplace-Name: Ashoka University
Author-Name: Naveen  Hari
Author-Name-First: Naveen 
Author-Name-Last: Hari
Author-Email: naveen.hari@tamu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Texas A& M University
Author-Name: Bipasha  Maity
Author-Name-First: Bipasha 
Author-Name-Last: Maity
Author-Email: bipasha.maity@ashoka.edu.in
Author-Workplace-Name: Ashoka University
Title: Female Legislators and Forest Conservation in India
Abstract: Using firm and individual-level data, we provide reduced-form evidence suggesting a positive relationship between relative female employment and firm size. We then use a difference-in-difference strategy exploiting a natural experiment in Indian labor law amendments that raised firm size thresholds for regulatory compliance. 

length: 38
Creation-Date: 20250220
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File-URL:https://dp.ashoka.edu.in/ash/wpaper/paper104_0.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf 
Number: 104
Keywords: Employment
Keywords: gender
Keywords: firm size
Keywords: labor laws
Keywords: regression discontinuity
Handle: RePEc:ash:wpaper:104