Volume 20 - Article 21 | Pages 503–540
The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06: Data collection, data quality, and analysis of attrition
By Phil Anglewicz, Jimi Adams, Francis Obare, Hans-Peter Kohler, Susan Watkins
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