Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly …

The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty …, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored …

Bangladesh's agriculture ... …

. The empirical context of the analysis is the Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh, which opened in 1998 and reduced the transport …

agriculture -- Growth of the non-farm sector and its drivers -- Connecting farmers to markets : trading in high-value products …

elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to …

village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities …

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …