Using empirical methods, this paper examines household schooling and child labor decisions in rural Bangladesh. The … activity for all children within the household, regardless of gender; there is a weak association between direct costs and … household decisions; finally, higher child wages encourage households to practice child labor …

A renewable energy program in Bangladesh that brings solar power to rural households is one of the most successful …

from Bangladesh. It first examines the determinants of poverty transition categories (chronic poor, never poor, falling … into poverty, moving out of poverty) as a function of household characteristics in the original survey round and shocks … experienced by the household, controlling for unobserved community characteristics. The probability of being chronically poor …

majority of the food insecure households were younger household heads, who own less than 1 ha of farmlands. On average, male … factors for such food insecurity. However, the gender of household head, policy support, land redistribution, farmland …