. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …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 …

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where … adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however … to use health inputs differently from all other women. After correcting for this possible selectivity bias, the adverse …

trial of at-birth vitamin A supplementation in Bangladesh. Tornado exposure in utero and in infancy decreased birth size and … larger for boys. Our results suggest that wide-scale supplementation policies would generate potential health benefits in …

Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records … from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants … diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase …