level. The World Health Organization (2010) indicates that Bangladesh has poor prenatal and postpartum care, nutritional … rural Bangladesh remains an issue that needs to be addressed to fully address maternal health and maternal morbidities in …Objective: To outline the specific socio-economic barriers to maternal health faced by Bangladeshi women. Background …

In this paper, I estimate the inter-generational health impact of maternal employment opportunities using evidence from … the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. This industry was exposed to a trade liberalization policy in 2005, which … probability of neonatal survival for children who are born in areas that experience higher growth in employment opportunities post …

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school children I find no evidence for the selection effect but some support …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …