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Rukmini Shrinivasan on What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us

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Is Female Labor Force Participation in Line With Economic Growth and Structural Transformation?

Female labor force participation is neither in line with economic growth and structural transformation, nor is it in line with fertility dropping. I don't even think you can legislate or nom set our way out of this, because i've written about this with alex taverock. Youro state capacity is so weak that this is going to be like one more zombi legislation that's just never going to end up being enforced. At worst, we'll criminalize something, and, you know, some poor minority businessmen will go to jail for it.

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