Three essays on gender, land rights, and collective action in Brazil's rural political economy

I explore the hypothesis that women's land rights and participation in collective action are determinants of women's welfare, efficiency and intrahousehold bargaining power in Brazil. The first chapter utilizes data collected in 1999 on household and community gender relations on agrarian...

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Main Author: Mardon, Merrilee
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2005
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3193922