The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is …

This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine … Bangladesh famine were 32 percent more likely to die within one month of birth compared to their siblings who were not in utero … during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

Under-five child malnutrition is an important phenomenon in developing countries like Bangladesh. Historically certain … malnutrition using information from 4,976 children aged 0 to 59 months of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2014 data. A … to improve the overall under-five childhood malnutrition condition in Bangladesh …