well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh. Programme impact is assessed on a wide range of monetary and nonmonetary …-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …

in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of mental support to participating women improves their mental health ten … depression, relative to women in the control group. We also find positive impacts on economic outcomes: household food security …

literacy as a potential salient determinant of household-level food security. In light of the recent financial crisis and the …

This paper aims to study the relationship between women's land ownership and household food security in Tanzania, using … data from three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. The analysis focuses on the Household Dietary Diversity Scale …. Additionally, we examine the impact of the gendered division of crop cultivation on household food security, distinguishing between …

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … doing, recent literature on the modelling of proportions is combined with the growing body of research concerning household … lower extent of, asset holding diversification. …

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 …