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Anahita Karandikar
Anahita Karandikar is a PhD candidate at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, and currently serves as a Director for Women in Econ/Policy, a non-profit working to make the field of Economics less gender-unequal. Her research interests lie in behavioural development economics, political economy and gender. She has previously been a Research Associate at the Behavioral Development Lab housed at JPAL South Asia.
Anahita has a master's degree in economics from Ashoka University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Fergusson College, Pune.
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Bringing work home: Flexible work arrangements as ‘gateway jobs’ for women
Millions of women stay out of the workforce despite having a desire for paid work, often because available opportunities are incompatible with traditional norms of household roles. Based on an experiment in West Bengal, this article shows that flexible work arrangements significantly raise women’s take-up of jobs. Although home-based work reduces worker productivity, once women have some experience with flexible work, they are more likely to accept future outside-the-home jobs.
