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Credit and women's group membership in South India: Testing models of intrahousehold allocative behavior

This article uses empirical data from the author's own South India household survey, which compares the impact of slightly diverging credit schemes u pon selected indicators of allocative behavior to test the value added of an economic institutional approach for modeling intrahousehold allocati...

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Main Author: Nathalie Holvoet
Format: Printed Book
Published: Feminist Economics 11(3), November 2005, 27 - 62 2005
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/001047.pdf
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