Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa

Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa

Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means for wo...

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Main Authors: Djuikom, Marie Albertine, van de Walle, Dominique
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
WELFARE
NUTRITION
GENDER
MARITAL DISSOLUTION
WIDOWS
DIVORCEES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154211516215200599/Marital-shocks-and-womens-welfare-in-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29216

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