Russell Smyth, Mohan Nandha
This article examines the relationship between exchange rates and stock prices in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka using daily data over a six-year period from 1995 to 2001. Both the Engle–Granger two-step and Johansen cointegration methods suggest that there is no long-run equilibrium rela...
Paresh Kumar Narayan, Russell Smyth, Mohan Nandha
Abstract The present article examines the dynamic linkages between the stock markets of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka using a temporal Granger causality approach by binding the relationship among the stock price indices within a multivariate cointegration framework. We also examine the i...
Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam, Kanti Ananta Nuzhat, Russell Smyth et al.
In 1994, Bangladesh introduced the Female Secondary School Stipend Program that made secondary education free for rural girls. This paper examines the long-term effects of the stipend program on education, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes of women. We find that the stipend increased ye...
Asad Islam, Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh Châu, Russell Smyth
Asad Islam, Chandana Maitra, Debayan Pakrashi, Russell Smyth
Abstract Lack of access to credit prevents poor households in developing countries from diversifying into income‐generating activities that could safeguard them against unforeseen shocks and seasonality, leaving them susceptible to food deprivation, even when aggregate food supplies are adequate. Mi...
Asad Islam, Russell Smyth
Abstract This study examines the economic returns to beauty and unprotected sex in the commercial sex market in Bangladesh. The results show that there is a beauty premium for commercial sex work, but it is within the bounds of the economic returns to beauty for women in occupations that do not invo...
Darryl P. Leong, Rita Yusuf, Romaina Iqbal, Álvaro Avezum et al.
BACKGROUND: Current strategies to prevent adverse cardiovascular outcomes focus primary prevention in high-risk groups and secondary prevention in people with known cardiovascular disease. We aimed to determine the proportion of events occurring in lower-risk groups globally. METHODS: We included pe...
Lutfunnahar Begum, Asad Islam, Russell Smyth
We examine the effects of the schooling of girls on the education of their younger siblings. To examine the causal effect of the education of older children on their younger siblings, we use the introduction of a gender-targeted conditional cash transfer program – the Female Secondary School Stipend...
Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam, Khanti Nuzhat, Russell Smyth et al.
In 1994, Bangladesh introduced the Female Secondary School Stipend Program, which made secondary education free for rural girls. This paper examines the long-term effects of the stipend program on education, marriage, fertility and labor market outcomes of women. We find that the stipend increased y...
Paresh Kumar Narayan, Russell Smyth, Mohan Nandha
\n\t\t\t\t\tThe present article examines the dynamic linkages between the stock markets<br />of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka using a temporal Granger causality<br />approach by binding the relationship among the stock price indices within a<br />multivariate cointegrat...
Asad Islam, Chandana Maitra, Debayan Pakrashi, Russell Smyth
We use a large household level panel dataset collected from rural households in Bangladesh to examine the effects of microcredit program participation on household food security. We examine how microcredit affects different measures of food security; namely, household calorie consumption, dietary di...
Asad Islam, Russell Smyth
This chapter examines the economics of sex work in Bangladesh. It begins with an overview of the organization of sex markets in Bangladesh by considering two major categories of female sex workers in the country: those who work in brothels and those who work as floating sex workers. It then discusse...
Matthew M. Ippolito, Matthew L. Robinson
By incorporating platelets and PfHRP2 into standard case definitions of severe falciparum malaria, Watson et al.1Watson J.A. Uyoga S. Wanjiku P. Makale J. Nyutu G.M. Mturi N. George E.C. Woodrow C.J. Day N.P.J. Bejon P. Opoka R.O. Dondorp A.M. John C.C. Maitland K. Williams T.N. White N.J. Improving...
Asad Islam, Vy Nguyen, Russell Smyth, Zabid Iqbal
Lutfunnahar Begum, Asad Islam, Russell Smyth
This paper examines the link between the Female Secondary School Stipend Program in Bangladesh, its effects on schooling of girls, and the subsequent impact on the education of their younger siblings. The stipend program was introduced nationwide in 1994, and affected girls in rural areas who were o...