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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/10010278457
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Poisoning the mind: Arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and children's educational achievement in rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 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/10010278565
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Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Asadullah, Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; … - 2020
show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497897
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Women's Employment and Natural Shocks
Canessa, Eugenia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2021
flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497956
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What determines religious school choice? Theory and evidence from rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chakrabarti, Rupa; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 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/10010289859
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Going to school in Purdah: Female schooling, mobility norms and madrasas in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291357
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Sarr, Leopold; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307353
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Corruption in the Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh
Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015
We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307489
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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. - 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/10010329002
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The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement
Asadullah, Niaz - 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/10010377256