The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …

Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for …

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …

mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …

secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than … in rural Bangladesh. …

This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction … Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) is combined with community information on the availability of non‐religious secondary …