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Corruption in the health sector : evidence from unofficial consultation fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015

We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...

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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015

and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide …

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020

families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh we find a large degree of intergenerational persistence of economic …

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Contract structure, time preference, and technology adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Smits, Joeri; Sun, Qigang - 2020

Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being …

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...

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Natural shocks and marriage markets : evolution of mehr and dowry in muslim marriages

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, … - 2017

(decrease) in mehr. We then exploit several natural experiments in Bangladesh, that include the Green Revolution around the 1960 … in Muslim marriages. Using two household survey datasets in Bangladesh, we find support for our theoretical predictions … Bangladesh. These results demonstrate that natural shocks may influence the evolution of social institutions. …

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Information provision over the phone saves lives : an RCT to contain COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh at the pandemic's onset

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2022

Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic's onset. In April and May 2020, we implemented a randomized controlled trial with more than 3,000 households in 150 Bangladeshi villages. Our one-to-one information campaign via phone...

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Information campaign on arsenic poisoning : unintended consequences in marriage market

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Singh, Prachi - 2023

market in rural Bangladesh. Despite being heavily contaminated with arsenic, groundwater was the main source of drinking … water for rural dwellers in Bangladesh since the 1970s. This created a major health emergency in the country as arsenic … campaign. We study the impact of the campaign on marriage patterns in rural Bangladesh. Using a difference-in-difference model …

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