This paper measures the rural households' willingness to pay (WTP) for access to public telephone services in … Bangladesh and Peru through contingent valuation methods. The development of contingent valuation methods together with the … local call varies from US$0.25 to US$0.35, and for a LDN call varies from US$0.33 to US$0.45. For Bangladesh, households …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … 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 looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … religious values. We investigate how household income, religious preferences, schooling costs, and school quality affect the … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …

of household income and a composite index of women empowerment, the paper finds evidence of women’s status influencing … be instrumental in mitigating the extent of gender-based within-household discrimination. The findings reveal that …

telephone services with household income. It was found that, regardless of the income measurement, most characteristics of …. Using a specially designed household survey for a representative sample of rural towns, it is possible to link access to … public telephone usage are positively linked with income. Remarkably, the benefits occur at both non-farm and farm income …