Economic development and gender equality is there a gender Kuznets curve?

World Politics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 156-186

  Eastin, Joshua ^a   Prakash, Aseem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GENDER RELATIONS; KUZNETS CURVE;

EID: 84873676759     PISSN: 00438871     EISSN: 10863338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0043887112000275     Document Type: Article

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