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We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
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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...
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and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide …
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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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villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At …
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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...
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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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(decrease) in mehr. We then exploit several natural experiments in Bangladesh, that include the Green Revolution around the 1960 … in Muslim marriages. Using two household survey datasets in Bangladesh, we find support for our theoretical predictions … Bangladesh. These results demonstrate that natural shocks may influence the evolution of social institutions. …
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evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …
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This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide …
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