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This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction....
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-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …
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villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At …
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well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh. Programme impact is assessed on a wide range of monetary and nonmonetary …
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Using a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh, we to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for specific job …
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field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the share of treated farmers who receive better training in System of Rice …
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Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...
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We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one …
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(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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conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Bangladesh recruiting males from the ethnic majority (Bengali) and an …
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