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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2011
mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121328
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Poisoning the Mind : Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124776
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School Access, Resources, and Learning Outcomes : Evidence from a Non-Formal School Program in Bangladesh
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2011
– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126133
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Going to School in Purdah : Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012
This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction … Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) is combined with community information on the availability of non‐religious secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096442
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What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099680
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012
-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105995
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Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2013
BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088654
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Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979856
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Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Asadullah, M. Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; … - 2021
show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252369
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Missing from the Market : Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2017
South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966045