Gendered Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Poor Urban Households in India
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Gender; Well-being; Poverty; Social norms; Urban;All these keywords.
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- B54 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Feminist Economics
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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