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history to understand the poverty dynamics of a single poor household in Bangladesh. The way in which such narratives can …
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This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on … findings for rural education programs in Bangladesh. …
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This paper documents the regional divide in educational facilities between East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and West …
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India's development experience over the past fifty years suggests that the increasing importance of the services sector … for the increasing importance of the services sector in India, this paper estimates Engel curve-type relationships for six …
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While use of contract teachers provides a low-cost way to increase teacher numbers, it raises the quality concern that these less trained teachers may be less effective.  We estimate the causal contract-teacher effect on student achievement using school fixed effects and value-added models of...
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outcomes for children in rural India, many of whom lack basic numeracy and literacy skills.  Using data on students …
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of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh, India.  Our peer group construction takes the form of directed networks …
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This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household of education with the recently available India Human Development …
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Labour force participation in India is found to respond to a plurality of causal mechanisms. Employment and unpaid …
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and China in particular. India does well relative to Pakistan and Bangladesh but lags seriously behind China and the other …This paper provides an overview of school education in India. Firstly, it places India`s educational achievements in … is high, signalling poor quality of schooling. Thirdly, the paper examines the role of private schooling in India. While …
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