Peace in the Household: Gender, Agency, and Villagers' Measures of Marital Quality in Bangladesh

Feminist Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 187-211

  Ahmed, Fauzia Erfan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Intrahousehold bargaining; Islam; marital quality; microcredit; women's agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919842459     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2014.963635     Document Type: Article

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