Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan et al.
In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators made unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in the facilities. Averaging across the countries, ab...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
It is often argued that child labour comes at the expense of schooling and so perpetuates poverty for children from poor families. To test this claim we study the effects on children's labour force participation and school enrollments of the pure school-price change induced by a targeted enrollment ...
Rose M. Marra, Kelly Rodgers, Demei Shen, Barbara Bogue
Abstract As our nation's need for engineering professionals grows, educators and industry leaders are increasingly becoming concerned with how to attract women to this traditionally male career path. Self‐efficacy has been shown to be related to positive outcomes in studying and pursuing careers in ...
Brian Street
Literacy and Development is a collection of case studies of literacy projects around the world. The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them. Arguing that ethnographic research can an...
Jessica Fraser‐Thomas, Jean Côté
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of adolescents’ positive and negative developmental experiences in sport. Twenty-two purposefully sampled adolescent competitive swimmers participated in a semistructured qualitative interview. Content analysis led to the organization of meaning un...
Ana Marušić, Lana Bošnjak, Ana Jerončić
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate evidence about authorship issues and provide synthesis of research on authorship across all research fields. METHODS: We searched bibliographical databases to identify articles describing empirical quantitive or qualitative research f...
Rachel Heath, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from fact...
Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci et al.
Abstract We study how women's choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable trajectory out of poverty. To do this we conduct a large-scale randomize...
Md. Shahed Mahmud, Mesbah Uddin Talukder, Sk. Mahrufur Rahman
BACKGROUND: Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the mental health of the people all around the world is severely disrupted. AIM: The purpose of this study is to identify whether 'Fear of COVID-19' impacted on future workforces' career anxiety at the first place and whether depression from COVID-19 has ...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Mohammad Nazmul Hassan
We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthi...
S. C., Nora Federici
Part 1 Women's position as a cause of demographic change: the impact of women's position on demographic change during the course of development - what do we know?, Karen Oppenhem Mason reproductive behaviour - patriarchal structure and demographic change, urban women's autonomy and natural fertility...
Imran Matin, David Hulme
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...
Debdulal Mallick, Mohammad Rafi
Joseph Ana, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Richard Smith, Lijing L. Yan
As part of a cluster of articles critically reflecting on the theme of "no health without research," Richard Smith and colleagues lay out what is currently known about research misconduct in low- and middle-income countries, summarizing some high profile cases and making suggestions on ways forward.