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South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
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This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … education norms gap in Bangladesh in recent years …
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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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This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a cohort of students from all middle schools in a nationally designated poor county in China. Using the...
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-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
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paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment …
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About 50% of Bangladesh's female youth working-age population is not in employment, education, or training (NEET … goal in Bangladesh and other countries from the Global South. In this study, we analyze the social basis of support for … husbands regarding the role of females are a key obstacle to a higher labor force participation of young women in Bangladesh …
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We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first exploitation of the newly-digitised Board of Trade Household...
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Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
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We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...
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