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 …

significantly impede growth. This paper presents evidence on school dropout rate being affected by household characteristics and … social background. We investigate dropouts by using a large data-set from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2011 … strategy to be fairly robust. The large incidence of households having a child quitting school to enter the labor market also …