Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
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Keywords
legal reforms; divorce; ethnic norms; intra-household decision-making;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2022-08-08 (Development)
- NEP-SEA-2022-08-08 (South East Asia)
- NEP-SOC-2022-08-08 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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