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who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps …, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …
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A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention …
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. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh …
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,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either group financial incentives or a non-financial "social recognition …
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Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show that in this environment the market might pool on...
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wholesale prices, and effects of regulations of intermediaries. To test these we study the effects of a policy in Bangladesh …
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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 entices...
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The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of …
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trial of at-birth vitamin A supplementation in Bangladesh. Tornado exposure in utero and in infancy decreased birth size and …
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Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those …
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