Husband and Wife Perspectives on Farm Household Decision-making Authority and Evidence on Intra-household Accord in Rural Tanzania

C. Leigh Anderson; Travis W. Reynolds; Mary Kay Gugerty

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Husband and Wife Perspectives on Farm Household Decision-making Authority and Evidence on Intra-household Accord in Rural Tanzania

C. Leigh Anderson Travis W. Reynolds Mary Kay Gugerty

World Development Vol. 90 pp. 169-183 · Elsevier BV

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C. Leigh Anderson, Travis W. Reynolds, Mary Kay Gugerty (2017). Husband and Wife Perspectives on Farm Household Decision-making Authority and Evidence on Intra-household Accord in Rural Tanzania. World Development, 90, 169-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.09.005

Husband and Wife Perspectives on Farm Household Decision-making Authority and Evidence on Intra-household Accord in Rural Tanzania

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