Nazmul Alam, Motiur Rahman, Kaniz Gausia, Mohd. Yunus et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of selected sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their risk factors among workers in and near a truck stand in Dhaka, Bangladesh. STUDY DESIGN: A random sample of 696 men and 206 women were recruited into a cross-sectional study u...
Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Mularidharan et al.
We would like to thank Deon Filmer and Edmundo Murrugarra for their valuable comments. We would also like to thank the participants of the Teacher and Medical Provider Absence Workshop in Delhi, India January 2004 for their comments. Finally, we would like to thank Sanya Carleyolson for her invaluab...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap in primary school enrolment. On the other hand, registered n...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
M. Nazmul Hoque, Abed Chaudhury, Md. Abdul Mannan Akanda, M. Anwar Hossain et al.
A novel coronavirus COVID-19 was first emerged in Wuhan city of Hubei Province in China in December 2019. The COVID-19, since then spreads to 213 countries and territories, and has become a pandemic. Genomic analyses have indicated that the virus, popularly named as corona, originated through a natu...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury, Syed Rashed Al-Zayed
This report presents findings from the first ever comprehensive survey to document the incidence and quality of secondary madrasas in Bangladesh. Analysis also draws upon other publicly available administrative and household level datasets. Currently the authors have very little information on schoo...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
There has been a proliferation of non-state providers of education services in the developing world. In Bangladesh, for instance, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee runs more than 40,000 non-formal schools that cater to school-drop outs from poor families or operate in villages where there's lit...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Sajeda Amin, Nazmul Chaudhury
This paper examines the influence of the institutional nature of schools on gender stereotyping by exploring contrasts between non-religious and Islamic faith (that is madrasah) schools among secondary school-going adolescents in rural Bangladesh. In particular, differences in gender attitudes acros...
Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Continuous drinking of such metal-contaminated water is highly cancerous; prolonged drinking of such water risks developing diseases in a...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
Using a primary school curricular standard basic mathematics competence test, this paper documents the low level of student achievement amongst 10-18 year old rural children in Bangladesh and tests the extent to which years spent in school increases learning. Our sample includes children currently e...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
This paper identifies endogenous social effects in mathematics test performance for eighth graders in rural Bangladesh using information on arsenic contamination of water wells at home as an instrument. In other words, the identification relies on variation in test scores among peers owing to exogen...
Seema Akter, Mohammed Kamrul Huda, Minhajur Rahman, M. Nazmul Hoque et al.
In the present work, Pholidota pallida was explored for its phytochemicals along with its bioactivities. The qualitative screening of plant extract confirmed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, tannins, steroids and traces of quinone and coumarin in it. Four fractions viz. Methanol (F...
Muhammad AsadUllah, Rupa Chakrabarti, Nazmul Chaudhury
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury, Amit Dar
This paper presents new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on secondary student achievement using a rich data set from rural Bangladesh. The authors deal with a potentially important selectivity issue in the South Asian context: the non-random sorting of children into religious schools...