the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …

teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …

-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … and childbirth. This stems from (a) young girls becoming more likely to be enrolled in school after garment jobs (which …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …

implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

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 …

The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …

Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … contamination of tubewells, the primary source of drinking water at home, on the learning outcome of school-going children in rural …