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Leila Gautham
Leila Gautham is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at the University of Leeds. Her applied work is at the intersection of labour and development economics, with a focus on gender and care. She is interested in how economic development and urbanisation mediate gender inequality in labour markets. Her research uses time use data to investigate the costs of unpaid care provision. She also has an active research agenda looking at paid care employment (in sectors such as health and education) as a driver of wage inequality. She received her PhD in Economics in 2022 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Motherhood, childcare and wages in India
Despite studies emphasising the role of parenthood as central to gender wage inequality in wealthy countries, these wage dynamics in developing countries are poorly understood. This article looks at the association between having children and women’s wages in India. It quantifies the contribution of motherhood to gender wage inequality across urban and rural contexts. Wage reductions associated with motherhood are negligible for rural women, but large for urban women, who have better educational and job characteristics.
