Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility Choices in Rural Senegal and Uganda.
Feminist economic approaches have transformed mainstream economic analysis to better account for intrahousehold decision making. To quantify decision making, studies resort to self-reported survey-based measures, derived from questions directed to household members, or proxy-variable methods. This s...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 186 - 224 |
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