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Finance and Children's Academic Performance
Hu, Qing; Levine, Ross; Lin, Chen; Tai, Mingzhu - 2021
What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children’s human capital? Using a parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children’s academic performance in low-income families. Consistent with the view that financial development...
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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance
Almond, Douglas - 2012
We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in...
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On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives
Arunachalam, Raj - 2010
multiple, independent checks on the validity of regime assignment. Using retrospective marriage data from rural Bangladesh, we …
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Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters
Demidova, Svetlana A. - 2009
This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767215
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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains : Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
Emran, Shahe - 2020
wholesale prices, and effects of regulations of intermediaries. To test these we study the effects of a policy in Bangladesh …
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Throwing the Baby Out with the Drinking Water : Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh
Buchmann, Nina - 2019
The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of …
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Identifying the Cost of a Public Health Success : Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh
Pitt, Mark M. - 2015
incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. We provide for the first time … capabilities as well as on the schooling attainment, occupational structure, entrepreneurship and incomes of the rural Bangladesh … of rural households in Bangladesh who are participants in a long-term panel survey following respondents and their …
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Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets
Akram, Agha - 2017
Bangladesh, randomly varying saturation of offers across 133 villages. The transport subsidies increase beneficiaries' income due …
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel - 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...
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Firm Level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks : Evidence from Bangladesh
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2008
This paper looks at the predictions of a standard heterogeneous firm model regarding the exports of firms across markets in response to a particular trade policy quot;experimentquot; and compares these predictions to the data. A unique feature of our data is that it has information on the...
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