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Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
Asadullah, Niaz - 2016
villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559604
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Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz - 2016
Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584641
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Can a specially designed information intervention around the WASH-agriculture linkages make any difference? Experimental evidence of behavioral changes and health impacts
Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Khan, Tahsina Naz; Gerber, Nicolas; … - 2016
This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the specially designed packages of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with 'student brigades' (student teams tasked with maintaining hygiene in school) on household WASH behavior and practices in both a household and farm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588700
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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause, Anabelle; Zimmermann, … - 2016
household survey data from Bangladesh, we construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588709
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Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women’s Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2017
South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613143
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Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2016
South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653191
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Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy - 2017
(decrease) in mehr. We then exploit several natural experiments in Bangladesh, that include the Green Revolution around the 1960 … in Muslim marriages. Using two household survey datasets in Bangladesh, we find support for our theoretical predictions … Bangladesh. These results demonstrate that natural shocks may influence the evolution of social institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653403
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Sarr, Leopold; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307353
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Corruption in the Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh
Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015
We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307489
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Safety and labour conditions: The accord and the national tripartite plan of action for the garment industry of Bangladesh
Khan, Mohd Raisul Islam; Wichterich, Christa - 2015
the working conditions and labour relations in the Readymade Garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh, and led to the adoption … of the multi-stakeholder agreements Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (Accord) at the international level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372058