assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 … explained qualitatively by a model in which migration is risky, mitigating risk requires individual-specific learning, and some …

in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and document a set of striking facts. The incentive induces 22% of …) experimenting with the new activity is risky, given uncertain prospects at the destination, (b) overcoming the risk requires … subsistence and the risk of failure is very costly. We test a model with these features by examining heterogeneity in take-up and …

northwest part of Bangladesh, this study quantifies the factors that influence such migration decisions. Among other results, we …

The rural northwestern districts of Bangladesh, home to 10 million people, experience a preharvest seasonal famine …

poor, rural households in northern Bangladesh, where we relaxed some of these constraints in a rigorous Randomized Control … barriers, as well as risk and time preferences, play influential roles. Data from the follow-up surveys--six and eighteen …

construction of a major bridge in Bangladesh - which dramatically reduced travel time between the economically deprived north …