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To Honor and Obey: Efficiency, Inequality and Patriarchal Property Rights

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Published in Feminist Economics, March 2001, 7(1): 25-44.

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  • Nancy Folbre & Elissa Braunstein, 2000. "To Honor and Obey: Efficiency, Inequality and Patriarchal Property Rights," Published Studies ps11, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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