Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
RavalCion and Wodon try to determine whether children reduction in the incidence of child labor among boys seln to work in rural Bangladesh are caught in a poverty (girls) represents about one-quarter (one-eighth) of the trap, with the extra incorne to poor families from child increase in their scho...
Martin Ravallion
Welfare distributional effects in a food producing economy of changes in the relative price of food are analyzed, allowing for labor market responses. Conditions for signing the welfare effects are derived for a stylized agricultural household and are tested for Bangladesh. Point estimates suggest t...
Debra Singh, Joel Negin, Michael Otim, Christopher Garimoi Orach et al.
INTRODUCTION: Community health workers (CHWs) have been proposed as a means for bridging gaps in healthcare delivery in rural communities. Recent CHW programmes have been shown to improve child and neonatal health outcomes, and it is increasingly being suggested that paid CHWs become an integral par...
Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess et al.
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand‐ and supply‐side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low‐income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either vocational training (VT) or firm‐provi...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad, Zahed Hossain Khan
Micro‐credit programmes, having made their mark in providing credit and other development services to the poor in a non‐traditional way, are able to make significant changes in a rural economy. This article attempts to quantify the village‐level impacts of the three most important micro‐credit progr...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Douglas F. Barnes, Hussain A. Samad
Lack of access to electricity has been considered a major impediment to the growth and development of rural economies. Thus, the provision of electricity and other forms of modern energy has been a priority for many development organizations, including the World Bank. However, few impact studies of ...
Carolyn Vogler, Michaela Brockmann, Richard D. Wiggins
Drawing on British data from two annual sweeps of the ISSP eight years apart in 1994 and 2002, for modules focusing on 'Family and Changing Gender Roles', this paper examines the extent to which changes in women's labour market participation, changing ideologies/discourses of gender and changing for...
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...
William T. Dickens, Lorenz Göette, Erica L. Groshen, Steinar Holden et al.
Rushdi Md. Rezaur Razzaque, Muhammad Jahangir Ali, Paul Mather
Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak et al.
There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent, or motivation. The poverty traps view emphasizes differences in opportunities that stem from access to wealth. To test these views, we exploit a large-scale, randomized asset tr...
Rachel Heath
I argue that firms use referrals from current workers to mitigate a moral hazard problem. I develop a model in which referrals relax a limited liability constraint by allowing the firm to punish the referral provider if the recipient has low output. I test the model’s predictions using household sur...
Nazli Kibria
This article looks at the income-related experiences of women workers in Bangladesh in the export garment industry, the first modern industry in the country to employ large numbers of women. The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with 34 female sewing machine operators at five factories. Despite ...
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...
Nicola Francesco Dotti, Ugo Fratesi, Camilla Lenzi, Marco Percoco
This paper looks at a little-explored role that universities can play: that of representing a channel for brain gain, enabling regions to attract bright students who may decide to stay after they have graduated. In this way, universities can be a source of selective migration processes and possibly ...