Income Changes and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya
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- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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- NEP-EXP-2019-03-25 (Experimental Economics)
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