Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship … analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship on overall life satisfaction – a key manifestation of subjective … three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …

and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide …

-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At …

South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …

(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. …

evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …