9/ Consistent with a jealousy mechanism, willingness to pay declines significantly if the husband can join and therefore monitor the conversation. Effects are again stronger in households where women say their husbands are more jealous.

5/ These preferences don't seem to come from workplace safety concerns. A cross-randomized safety intervention increases perceptions of safety but has no impact on attendance. Treatment effects are, however, much stronger in households with more jealous husbands.

4/ In a first experiment, I randomize 1,400 married women to receive a two-week job in either a mixed or women-only workplace. Participants in the women-only workplace are 46% more likely to apply for a job and 31% more likely to turn up.

2/ As in many places, spousal jealousy is very common in my setting in Bihar, India. For example, 60% of our sample think their husbands would be jealous or angry if they spoke to other men at work!

Excited to post the latest version of my JMP: The female labor supply constraints of spousal jealousy bit.ly/4nn9apn

I use two field experiments to study the role of spousal jealousy in constraining married women’s employment. More below 👇: