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plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … find that the reform led to a sixfold increase in an individual's switching probability and a threefold demand elasticity …
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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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 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 … contrast to the theory, we find that Islamic school demand does not respond to the average quality of schools in the locality. …
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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 …
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expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most …
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-employment but not from paid work, from which taxes are directly deducted. We estimate a consumer demand system in which the marginal …
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-employment but not from paid work, from which taxes are directly deducted. We estimate a consumer demand system in which the marginal …
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increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor … demand such that increases in the minimum wage rate make low-pay workers better off for higher elasticities, but worse off …
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