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We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the …
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mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …
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BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which …
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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 …
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