Nina Buchmann, Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, Shahana Nazneen et al.
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show that in this environment the market might pool on early m...
Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, Shahana Nazneen, Save the Children et al.
In search of the holy grail: can unconditional cash transfers graduate households
Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, Shahana Nazneen, Save the Children et al.
In search of the holy grail: can unconditional cash transfers graduate households
MB Haq, Érica Alves Gomes, M. Tamim
Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.ChE 23 1995-2005
Attila Ambrus, Erica Field
Using data from rural Bangladesh, we explore the hypothesis that women attain less schooling as a result of social and financial pressure to marry young. We isolate the causal effect of marriage timing using age of menarche as an instrumental variable. Our results indicate that each additional year ...
Andrea Zittlau
When more than 2,000 garment workers died on April 23, 2013 after the collapse of a commercial building in Bangladesh, there was a brief media focus on the conditions under which clothing is produced for the global market. The cracks in the walls of the building had predicted the catastrophe and ser...
Michael Barnett, Janice Gross Stein
The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement originally focused on ...
Attila Ambrus, Erica Field
This is a companion paper to Ambrus, Field and Torrero (2008). We extend the theoretical analysis of a marriage market with prenuptial agreements to a dynamic setting, in which individuals can reenter the marriage market after failed marriages. We show that the qualitative conclusions of the static ...
Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, Sakib Mahmoud, Nina Buchmann
Erica Field, Sakib Mahmood, Nina Buchmann, Rachel Glennerster
Erica Field, Sakib Mahmood, Nina Buchmann, Rachel Glennerster
Erica Field, Sakib Mahmood, Nina Buchmann, Rachel Glennerster
Erica Field, Sakib Mahmood, Nina Buchmann, Rachel Glennerster
Nina Buchmann, Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, Reshmaan Hussam
The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of the population to switch from backyard wells to less convenient drinking water sources that had a higher risk of fecal contamination. We find evidence of unintended health consequence...
Erica Field, Glennerster, Rachel, Nazneen, Shahana, Pimkina, Svetlana et al.
Ado files, dofiles and ready-for-analysis data used in the analysis published in the Final Report to 3ie on the project, "Age at marriage, women's education and mother child outcomes in Bangladesh" (project code OW 1.12). This project was funded as part of the First Open Window round. (2018-06-20)