, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to … local health facilities (both traditional and modern) before and after the completion of the 'Women's Health Project' in … 2005 (that enhanced emergency obstetric care in women friendly environment) to identify the causal effect of hospital …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of mental support to participating women improves their mental health ten …In low-income settings, women are vulnerable to the psychological distress caused by the social and economic impact of …-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2,402 women across 357 villages …

implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …

flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models … confirm this assumption: women's employment probability increases by approximately 13 percentage points. Correcting for … selection bias due to the initial employment status of women, we also find significant increases in the probability of non …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to …

three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …

representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, I examine female CUA incidence and correlates in Bangladesh … focusing on the role of education. Female CUA is found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger … cohort being far more likely to have complete autonomy over contraceptive use than women from the older cohort. Detailed …

We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one …

(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. …