This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine … Bangladesh famine were 32 percent more likely to die within one month of birth compared to their siblings who were not in utero … during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

"The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …

representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, I examine female CUA incidence and correlates in Bangladesh …

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 …

. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …