disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … transfers, provided that it is allocated rationally. Broadly, this appears to be the case in Bangladesh. We leave the measuring …

on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of …

with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual …

reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously emerging new technologies. Our unique school-enrollment and factory-employment … industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or …

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …

Prussia's period of rapid industrialization. Contrary to the predominant view that the franchise system produced a …