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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant - 2013
-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760603
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel - 2014
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 factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048994
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113098
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844746
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773128
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889052
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945613
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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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Protecting Infants from Natural Disasters : The Case of Vitamin a Supplementation and a Tornado in Bangladesh
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn - 2019
trial of at-birth vitamin A supplementation in Bangladesh. Tornado exposure in utero and in infancy decreased birth size and …
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