Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a …

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

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

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

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 … to 1996 a door-to-door outreach family planning and maternalchild health program. Village and individual data confirm a … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water risks development of diseases and therefore … has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of arsenic …

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