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Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program’s Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822989
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Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10009021891
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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246702
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Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283589
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The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement
Asadullah, Niaz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than … in rural Bangladesh. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095497
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Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011096067
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What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chakrabarti, Rupa; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011096080
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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Das, Maitreyi Bordia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105063
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959702
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Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh
Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884251