Family, Gender, and Women's Nutritional Status: A Comparison Between Two Himalayan Communities in Nepal

Economic History of Developing Regions

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 198-223

  Madjdian, Dónya S ^a   Bras, Hilde A J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

caste; ethnicity; family systems; food security; gender; Himalayas; Hinduism; intra household food allocation; Nepal; nutritional status; Tibetan Buddhism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021073483     PISSN: 20780389     EISSN: 20780397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2015.1114416     Document Type: Article

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