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Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program’s Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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

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Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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 …

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Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh

Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China

Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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 …

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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Das, Maitreyi Bordia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … education norms gap in Bangladesh in recent years. …

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The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement

Asadullah, Niaz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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

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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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

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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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

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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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. …

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