Are women as likely to take risks and compete? Behavioural findings from central Vietnam

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1459-1479

  Fletschner, Diana ^a   Anderson, C Leigh ^a   Cullen, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; POVERTY; SELF SUFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; WOMENS STATUS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; VIET NAM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EMPLOYMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MOBILITY; VIETNAM; WOMEN;

VIET NAM;

EID: 77957056633     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220381003706510     Document Type: Article

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