Alayne M. Adams, Atonu Rabbani, Shamim Ahmed, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood et al.
By disaggregating gains in child health in Bangladesh over the past several decades, significant improvements in gender and socioeconomic inequities have been revealed. With the use of a social determinants of health approach, key features of the country's development experience can be identified th...
Atonu Rabbani, Akib Khan, Sifat Shahana Yusuf, Alayne M. Adams
BACKGROUND: We explore long-term trends and determinants of socioeconomic inequities in chronic childhood undernutrition measured by stunting among under-five children in Bangladesh. Given that one in three children remain stunted in Bangladesh, the socioeconomic mapping of stunting prevalence may b...
Valerie Mueller, Karen A. Grépin, Atonu Rabbani, Bianca Navia et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted social distancing, workplace closures, and restrictions on mobility and trade that had cascading effects on economic activity, food prices, and employment in low- and middle-income countries. Using longitudinal data from Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria covering a period...
Reshmaan Hussam, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani, Natalia Rigol
We test the predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing in rural India. To track handwashing, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing some households about a future ch...
Rocco Macchiavello, Andreas Menzel, Atonu Rabbani, Christopher Woodruff
Women remain disadvantaged in access to management positions around the world. We conduct a field experiment with 24 large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify the marginal female and male candidates for supervisory posit...
Syed Shabab Wahid, John Sandberg, Malabika Sarker, A. S. M. Easir Arafat et al.
BACKGROUND: Binary categorical approaches to diagnosing depression have been widely criticized due to clinical limitations and potential negative consequences. In place of such categorical models of depression, a 'staged model' has recently been proposed to classify populations into four tiers accor...
Atonu Rabbani, Nabila Rahman Biju, Ashfique Rizwan, Malabika Sarker
OBJECTIVES: To test whether social ties play any roles in mitigating depression and anxiety, as well as in fostering mental health among young men living in a poor urban community. SETTING: A cohort of all young men living in an urban slum in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS: All men a...
Rocco Macchiavello, Andreas Menzel, Atonu Rabbani, Christopher Woodruff et al.
Large private firms are still relatively rare in low-income countries, and we know little about how entry-level managers in these firms are selected. We examine a context in which nearly 80 percent of production line workers are female, but 95 percent of supervisors are male. We evaluate the effecti...
Akib Khan, Atonu Rabbani
ABSTRACT This paper attempts to understand and operationalize the notion of spatial accessibility (SA) in the context of microfinance. Using geographic information system (GIS) data from northern Bangladesh, we have generated a kernel‐smoothed map and found remarkable spatial variation in access to ...
Atonu Rabbani, G. Caleb Alexander
Access to health care in lesser-developed countries is often quite limited, especially in rural areas. However, less is known about how different factors, such as household structure, parental income and parental education, modify such access to care. This study uses individual-level data from rural...
Rocco Macchiavello, Atonu Rabbani, Christopher Woodruff
We marketed a training program for lower level managers (line supervisors) to large factories in the Bangladeshi ready-made garment industry. Take-up of the program (even for a free slot) was low, due to intense production pressures, fire-fighting and concerns over retention of trained workers. Take...
Valerie Mueller, Karen A. Grépin, Atonu Rabbani, Anne Ngũnjiri et al.
This article analyzes two longitudinal datasets (October – December 2020; April 2021) of 1,000 and 900 women in Kenya and Nigeria, respectively, alongside in-depth qualitative interviews with women at risk of changes to time use, to study two pandemic issues: women’s substitution of paid for unpaid ...
Daniel W. Smith, Sonia Sultana, Yoshika S. Crider, Syed Anjerul Islam et al.
Delivering safe water in cities of lower- and middle-income countries remains elusive even where there is a piped supply. Passive, in-line chlorination upstream of the point of water collection reduces child diarrhea without the behavior change required for point-of-use water treatment products or m...
Atonu Rabbani
In this paper, we analyze changes in the dietary diversity scores of the Bangladeshi population over time. Our results show that although there was a clear increase in real per capital consumption expenditure in Bangladesh between 2005 and 2010, the dietary diversity of Bangladeshis showed no sign o...
Muhammed Nazmul Islam, Thomas Engels, Shafayet Hossain, Malabika Sarker et al.
Background Cataract is the leading cause of avoidable blindness globally. It is estimated that 89% of people with visual impairment live in low- and middle-income countries where the cost of cataract surgery represents a major barrier for accessing these services. Developing self-sustaining healthca...