Counting women's labour: A reanalysis of children's net production using Cain's data from a Bangladeshi village

Population Studies

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-38

  Robinson, Rachel Sullivan ^a   Lee, Ronald D ^b   Kramer, Karen L ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Child worth; Maya; Mead Cain; Value of children; Women's work

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; CHILD LABOR; FERTILITY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 39449136528     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324720701788590     Document Type: Article

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