Nidhiya Menon, Ph.D. : Gender and Conflict in Nepal: Testing for “Added Worker” Effects
In this presentation, Nidhiya Menon, Ph.D., will discuss a study of the “added worker effect,” examining how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil war affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Results indicate that with the displacement of male workers as a result of the communist-led insurgency, women’s employment probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. Menon is a Senior Research Scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women and Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and International Business School at Brandeis University.
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