Women empowerment and infant mortality in Bangladesh

Applied Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 5534-5547

  Hossain, Belayet ^a  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; infant mortality; rotated factor analysis; survival model; women empowerment

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPOWERMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INFANT MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84939564121     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1051657     Document Type: Article

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