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Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz - 2016

Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...

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Can a specially designed information intervention around the WASH-agriculture linkages make any difference? Experimental evidence of behavioral changes and health impacts

Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Khan, Tahsina Naz; Gerber, Nicolas; … - 2016

This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the specially designed packages of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with 'student brigades' (student teams tasked with maintaining hygiene in school) on household WASH behavior and practices in both a household and farm...

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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause, Anabelle; Zimmermann, … - 2016

household survey data from Bangladesh, we construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …

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Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women’s Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2017

South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …

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Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2016

South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653191

Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy - 2017

(decrease) in mehr. We then exploit several natural experiments in Bangladesh, that include the Green Revolution around the 1960 … in Muslim marriages. Using two household survey datasets in Bangladesh, we find support for our theoretical predictions … Bangladesh. These results demonstrate that natural shocks may influence the evolution of social institutions. …

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Business format in social entrepreneurships for Bangladesh’s water sector

Hoque, Mohammed Ziaul; Nahid, Kulsuma Akter - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 5 (2015) 25, pp. 1-17

suitable in Bangladesh. The theoretical aspect of the study examines the literature on social entrepreneurship in developing … economies and in Bangladesh, as well as literature on business models and formats. The empirical aspect of the study contains … Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship of the water sector and Bangladesh Social Enterprise Projects for social business …

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Credit rationing’s determinants of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Chittagong, Bangladesh

Hoque, Mohammed Ziaul; Sultana, Nilufar; Thalil, Tasmia - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 6 (2016) 1, pp. 1-23

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute immensely to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and they have a significant influence in growth of economy. However, SMEs are constrained in their access to formal credit as financial institutions fail to grant credit due to information asymmetry. This...

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Financial inclusion, financial regulation, and education in Bangladesh

Khalily, M. A. Baqui - 2016

Like in many other countries, inclusive finance for inclusive growth has become a policy issue in Bangladesh following … that around 40% of the adult population and 75% of households have access to financial services in Bangladesh. Several … examined empirically. Our analysis suggests that the regulatory agencies in Bangladesh have formulated policies for promoting …

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...

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