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The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …
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When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female … physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …
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Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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the time scale of FDI to Bangladesh over the period 1975- 2006 and major factors determining foreign companies' decisions … policy framework makes Bangladesh as an attractivedestination of FDI, that has a positive spillover and significant impacts …
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This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...
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Over the course of the last decade, Bangladesh has implemented a broad-based program of financial and market reforms … paper estimates a savings function to evaluate the impact of various determinants of private savings in Bangladesh …
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and infrastructure, and improved health outcomes. Key to meeting these goals, however, is overcoming the social and …
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper investigates the link between female status and food security. Employing three different indicators of female status – husband’s and wife’s assets brought at marriage, female share of household income and a composite index of...
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