Women’s Empowerment Across the Life Cycle and Generations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Florence Arestoff & Elodie Djemai, 2013. "Women's empowerment across the life cycle and generations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," Working Papers DT/2013/16, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
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Keywords
empowerment; marital violence; age-period-cohort; pseudo-panel; Sub-Saharan Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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