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study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent … sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the … either changing minimum wage levels (that are not binding for apparel in Bangladesh) or other changes through time, and are …
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South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …
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Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...
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representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, I examine female CUA incidence and correlates in Bangladesh …
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This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide …
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evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …
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three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …
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mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …
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Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …
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This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …
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