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This chapter deals with the impact of household arrangements on an individual’s health satisfaction, through a subjective wellbeing approach. It thus provides both a unique methodological complement to the earlier papers in the series, and extends the child-based analysis to come with the key intrahousehold allocations issues that are vital to understanding the development process.
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Rojas, M. (2011). Intra-Household Arrangements and Adult Health Satisfaction: Evidence from Mexico. In: McGillivray, M., Dutta, I., Lawson, D. (eds) Health Inequality and Development. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304673_7
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