M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
M. Niaz Asadullah
This paper examines traditional Islamic school (i.e. madrasah) attendance as a determinant of social attitudes among secondary-schooled adolescents in rural Bangladesh. Although both recognized and traditional madrasah-enrolled adolescents show greater support for charity, we find no evidence that t...
Mahbub Hossain, M. Niaz Asadullah, Uma Kambhampati
M. Niaz Asadullah, Zaki Wahhaj
Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit regression results show that even after accounting for human...
M. Niaz Asadullah
Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic secondary schools (i.e., madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than students attending non-madrasah schools. However, failure ...
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
This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At the same time, there is significant social distance amo...
Mohammad Asadullah, Sanzidur Rahman, Asadullah, M. Niaz, Rahman, Sanzidur
This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing hous eholds from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency....
M. Niaz Asadullah
M. Niaz Asadullah
Abstract Location choice of ‘one teacher, one classroom’ non‐formal primary schools pioneered by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is studied vis‐à‐vis its replication under government‐managed Reaching‐Out‐of‐School (ROSC) project using school Census data. Both types of schools have a st...
M. Niaz Asadullah
Since its onset in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has globally disrupted school operations, leading to a shift to some form of homeschooling arrangements. After two years, in March 2022, the government of Malaysia officially reopened all schools, ending its homeschooling program. In this paper, we expl...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Eric Tham
COVID-19 school closure has disrupted education systems globally raising concerns over learning time loss. At the same time, social isolation at home has seen a decline in happiness level among young learners. Understanding the link between cognitive effort and emotional wellbeing is important for p...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Fahema Talukder
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of subjective and emotional well-being of workers in Bangladesh’s female-intensive export-oriented ready-made garments (RMG) factories based on a function of demographic, economic and psychological factors and work-place characteristics....
M. Niaz Asadullah, Zaki Wahhaj
We propose and empirically test a theory of female paid work participation in a setting with traditional norms of female seclusion. Theoretically, we distinguish between innate preferences for female seclusion – potentially transmitted from parents to children – and a practice of female seclusion du...