women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …

. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh … gainful employment arm, in which work is offered and individuals are paid weekly the approximate equivalent of that in the … cash arm. We find that employment confers significant psychosocial benefits beyond the impacts of cash alone, with effects …

Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing …

trade with the rest of the world, not the American colonies, that allowed Britain to export its rapidly expanding textile …

that changes in various extensive margins (new markets, new goods) account for over 30 percent of export growth over this …-level characteristics interacting with destination-specific characteristics. We confirm that export growth for "new" products was stronger …

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …, at both the industry level and the local commuting zone level, the global export expansion of US products also creates a … import and export exposure is roughly balanced at the commuting zone level …

A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention …

who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps …

,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either group financial incentives or a non-financial "social recognition …