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...
Nazmul Chaudhury
Unannounced visits were made to health \n clinics in Bangladesh to determine what proportion of \n medical professionals were at their assigned post. Averaged \n over all job categories and types of facility, the absentee \n rate was 35 percent. The absentee rate for physicians was 4...
Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer
The authors report on a study in which unannounced visits were made to health clinics in Bangladesh with the intention of discovering what fraction of medical professionals were present at their assigned post. This survey represents the first attempt to quantify the extent of the problem on a nation...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We do so by combining household data with population ce...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
Abstract This paper documents a reverse gender gap in secondary schooling outcomes in Bangladesh drawing upon several rounds of nationally representative household survey data. In terms of enrolment status and years of schooling completed, boys are found to lag behind girls in the rural as well as i...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
This paper documents the experience of incentive-based reforms in the secondary Islamic/madrasa education sector in Bangladesh within the context of the broader debate over modernization of religious school systems in South Asia. Key features of the reform are changes of the curriculum and policy re...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury, Amit Dar
M. Nazmul Hoque, Abed Chaudhury, Md. Abdul Mannan Akanda, M. Anwar Hossain et al.
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection caused by a novel evolutionarily divergent RNA virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and subsequently spreaded a...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
M. Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
Using a basic mathematics competence test based on the primary school curricular standard, we examine the extent to which years spent in school actually increases numeracy achievement in rural Bangladesh. Our sample includes 10–18-year-old children currently enrolled in school as well as those out o...
Salima Akter, Hajara Akhter, Habib Sadat Chaudhury, MD. Hasanur Rahman et al.
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a common feature in obesity, comprising a cluster of abnormalities including abdominal fat accumulation, hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, leading to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Intake of carbohydrates (CHO), particularly a ...
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...
Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer
The authors report on a study in which unannounced visits were made to health clinics in Bangladesh with the intention of discovering what fraction of medical professionals were present at their assigned post. This survey represents the first attempt to quantify the extent of the problem on a nation...
M. Niaz Asadullah, Rupa Chakrabarti, Nazmul Chaudhury
ABSTRACT This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non‐religious schools. Using a unique dataset on secondary school‐age children from rural Bangladesh, we find that madrasah enrolment falls as household income...