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Formal education versus learning-by-doing
Gavrel, Frédéric; Lebon, Isabelle; Rebière, Thérèse - 2014
The efficiency of educational choices is studied in a search-matching model where individuals face a tradeoff: acquiring formal education or learning while on the job. When their education effort is successful, newcomers directly obtain a high-skill job; otherwise, they begin with a low-skill...
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? : The Bangladesh case
Meng, Xin (contributor); Ryan, Jim G. (contributor) - 2007
"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …
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Early childbirth, health inputs and child mortality : recent evidence from Bangladesh
Maitra, Pushkar (contributor); Pal, Sarmistha (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …
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Family planning as an investment in development : evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen (contributor); Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2007
"The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …
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Employment booms and infant health : evidence from the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh
Vasishth, Mahima - 2024
the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. This industry was exposed to a trade liberalization policy in 2005, which …
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"Try to balance the baseline" : a comment on "Parent-teacher meetings and student outcomes: evidence from a developing country" by Islam (2019)
Bonander, Carl; Hammar, Olle; Jakobsson, Niklas; … - 2025
Islam (2019) reports results from a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh that examines the effects of parent …
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A comment on "Raising health awareness in rural communities: a randomized experiment in Bangladesh and India" by Siddique et al. (2024)
Kjelsrud, Anders; Kotsadam, Andreas; Røgeberg, Ole; … - 2025
experiment conducted in rural Bangladesh and India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both awareness and compliance with preventive …
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Can the law affect attitudes and behaviour in the absence of strict enforcement? : experimental evidence from a child marriage reform in Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2024
aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher punishments …
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Climate shocks, intimate partner violence, and the protective role of climate-resilience projects
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, Xinde; Menon, Nidhiya - 2024
This study investigates the impact of climate change on intimate partner violence in Bangladesh and shows that policy …-referenced meteorological remote-sensed data with information on women's agency from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys, we find that …, amplifying existing social and environmental vulnerabilities. Climate resilience projects funded by the Bangladesh Climate Change …
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