How Much Does Women's Empowerment Influence their Wellbeing? Evidence from Africa
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Keywords
wellbeing; health; women's empowerment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2013-04-27 (Africa)
- NEP-DEM-2013-04-27 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2013-04-27 (Development)
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