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Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters

Demidova, Svetlana - 2006

This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...

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On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives

Arunachalam, Raj - 2006

multiple, independent checks on the validity of regime assignment. Using retrospective marriage data from rural Bangladesh, we …

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A signal to end child marriage : theory and experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Buchmann, Nina; Field, Erica Marie; Glennerster, Rachel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show that in this environment the market might pool on...

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Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing : A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Abaluck, Jason; Kwong, Laura H.; Styczynski, Ashley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention …

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Identifying the Cost of a Public Health Success : Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh

Pitt, Mark M. - 2015

incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. We provide for the first time … capabilities as well as on the schooling attainment, occupational structure, entrepreneurship and incomes of the rural Bangladesh … of rural households in Bangladesh who are participants in a long-term panel survey following respondents and their …

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David - 2015

Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …

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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention

Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2015

Bangladesh, where 346 communities consisting of 16,600 households were randomly assigned to control, information or subsidy …

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Under-investment in a Profitable Technology : The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh

Bryan, Gharad - 2014

assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive …

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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

Miller, Grant - 2013

This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives...

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