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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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Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …
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Bangladesh, where 346 communities consisting of 16,600 households were randomly assigned to control, information or subsidy …
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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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assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive …
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We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in...
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This paper looks at the predictions of a standard heterogeneous firm model regarding the exports of firms across markets in response to a particular trade policy "experiment" and compares these predictions to the data. A unique feature of our data is that it has information on the exports of the...
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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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multiple, independent checks on the validity of regime assignment. Using retrospective marriage data from rural Bangladesh, we …
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wholesale prices, and effects of regulations of intermediaries. To test these we study the effects of a policy in Bangladesh …
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