This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and … well-being ; Bangladesh …

This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … religious values. We investigate how household income, religious preferences, schooling costs, and school quality affect the … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth … mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational … process of household division plays an important role: sons who splinter off from the father's household experience greater …

well-being. Empirically, we apply an instrumental variable approach to a unique census-like household survey conducted in … three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …