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A signal to end child marriage : theory and experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Buchmann, Nina; Field, Erica Marie; Glennerster, Rachel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show that in this environment the market might pool on...
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On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives
Arunachalam, Raj - 2006
Dowries have been modeled as pre-mortem bequests to daughters or as groom-prices paid to in-laws. These two classes of models yield mutually exclusive predictions, but empirical tests of these predictions have been mixed. We argue that the heterogeneity of findings can be explained by a...
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Population and family planning in Bangladesh : a survey of the research
Alauddin, Mohammad; Faruqee, Rashid - 1983
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Seeding Fertile Ground : Education that Works for Bangladesh
World Bank - 2014
Bangladesh is recognized globally for its achievements and potential, despite a number of difficult challenges. Given the sustained economic growth over the last three decades, Bangladesh is identified as one of the next eleven emerging economies in the world. The country is at a crossroads...
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel - 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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Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
"This paper examines the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments with special focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the likelihood of public...
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Finance and Children’s Academic Performance
Hu, Qing - 2020
What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children's human capital? Using a … parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families … employment with adverse effects on children's education, we find that among low-income families, regulatory reforms: increased …
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Protecting Infants from Natural Disasters : The Case of Vitamin A Supplementation and a Tornado in Bangladesh
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn - 2019
Severe environmental shocks have grown in frequency and intensity due to climate change. Can policy protect against the often devastating human impacts of these shocks, particularly for vulnerable populations? We study this question by leveraging data from a situation in which a tornado tore...
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Brazil : Maternal and Child Health
World Bank - 2013
that the federal government programs in women and children's health could be expanded by prioritizing on failed expenditure …
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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance
Almond, Douglas - 2011
We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test …
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