Agnes Quisumbing, Bénédicte de la Brière, Quisumbing, Agnes R., De La Briere, Benedicte
This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households.It contributes to the literature testing various household models by using measures of bargaining power that have been informed by ethnographic evid...
Sonia Akter, Timothy J. Krupnik, Frederick Rossi, Fahmida Khanam
Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to ...
John Bongaarts
An examination of fertility trends in countries with multiple DHS surveys found that in the 1990s fertility stalled in mid-transition in seven countries: Bangladesh, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, and Turkey. An analysis of trends in the determinants of fertility revealed a system...
John C. Caldwell, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris et al.
The claim has been made, notably in a 1994 World Bank report, that the Bangladesh fertility decline shows that efficient national family planning programs can achieve major fertility declines even in countries that are very poor, and even if females have a low status and significant socioeconomic ch...
Sylvia Chant
<b>Background:</b> To develop an effective countermeasure and determine our susceptibilities to the outbreak of COVID-19 is challenging for a densely populated developing country like Bangladesh and a systematic review of the disease on a continuous basis is necessary. <b>Methods:</b> Publicly avail...
Jad Chaaban, Wendy Cunningham
Although girls are approximately half \n the youth population in developing countries, they \n contribute less than their potential to the economy. The \n objective of this paper is to quantify the opportunity cost \n of girls' exclusion from productive employment with the \n hop...
Hitomi Komatsu, Hazel Malapit, Sophie Theis
There are concerns that increasing women’s engagement in agriculture could negatively affect nutrition by limiting the time available for nutrition-improving reproductive work. However, very few empirical studies provide evidence to support these concerns. This paper examines the relationship betwee...
Lisa M. Bates, Joanna Maselko, Sidney Ruth Schuler
In traditional settings where early marriage and early childbearing persist, decisions about age at marriage are often made by parents, and mothers-in-law tend to have considerable influence in hastening the initiation of childbearing. This study analyzes data from a 2002 survey in six villages in r...
Priya Nanda
Within the overall aim of poverty alleviation, development efforts have included credit and self-employment programmes. In Bangladesh, the major beneficiaries of such group-based credit programmes are rural women who use the loans to initiate small informal income-generating activities. This paper e...
Sajeda Amin, Alaka Malwade Basu, Rob Stephenson
This article promotes a more complete understanding of social change by analyzing spatial patterns of contraceptive use in Bangladesh and the contiguous state of West Bengal in India. Multilevel analyses that control for variations in individual- and household-level correlates show an important role...
Agnes Quisumbing, Kelly Hallman
Marriage is an event of great social and economic significance in most societies. Despite the centrality of marriage in an individual’s life history, the literature on marriage patterns pays little attention to men. This paper examines trends in schooling, age, and assets at marriage for both men an...
Martha Chen
Abstract Chen's paper focuses on women's right to work in rural Bangladesh and India to illustrate the symbolism of independence and the practical necessity for women in the developing world to break from the constraints of custom to forge their own way to economic security. Chen's fieldwork in Bang...
Greg Seymour
Abstract Although a great deal of research exists on gender and agriculture, few studies investigate the implications of reduced gender disparities in households for technical efficiency. In this article, I compare the levels of technical efficiency achieved on plots operated by households with diff...
Kaushik Basu, Ambar Narayan, Martin Ravallion
A member of a collective-action households may or may not share the benefits of literacy with others in that household; the shared gains from doing so may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. Using household survey data for Bangladesh, we find strong external effects ...
David Lagakos, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Michael Waugh
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that depends o...