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Both Bangladesh and Niger are among the world’s poorest countries, while both incidentally have some of the highest rates of child brides. While technically illegal, child marriage is culturally significant and has continued to be prevalent in Bangladesh and Niger. With 76 percent of girls...
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care and visiting their family. Furthermore, educated women have lower fertility and use more maternal health care, and … their children have better health outcomes than those of less educated women. Overall, our results suggest that the marriage …
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This study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the use of contraceptives in the household. Using data from rural Bangladesh in 1998-1999 it investigates whether women in a relatively strong bargaining position at the time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position...
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the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female household-heads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows …-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …
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This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of …
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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131213
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796271
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798209
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800548