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Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
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"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …
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"The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …
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This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …
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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 …
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– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …
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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 …
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We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
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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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and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide …
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