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 …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

werden kann. Zudem wird untersucht, wie das Geschlecht der Pendler auf diesen Zusammenhang wirkt. Analysen auf Basis des … commuters' subjective perception of stress. In addition, it is also taken into account how the commuters' gender may influence … significant impact on the level of perceived stress, living together with children does increase the stress burden for commuting …

. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution … of food within the household, and in the gains from the food subsidy? Third, does food spending impact on child health …

found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It …

Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) is combined with community information on the availability of non - religious …This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction … between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools). We present a theoretical framework …

Bekleidungssektors Bangladeschs. SMU galt in Bangladesch insbesondere aufgrund des Prozesses der Depolitisierung zivilgesellschaftlicher … die Rolle der Kategorie Geschlecht. Vor dem Hintergrund meines empirischen Materials, das zwischen 2010 und 2015 in Form … garment sector. In the past, the concept of SMU was considered unrealistic in Bangladesh, largely because of the de …