Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 % of households to send a seasonal migrant, their consump...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Badal Kumar Mondal et al.
Fifty districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal, India have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization's maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of 50 districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal are 118,849 km2 and 104.9 millio...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury et al.
An in-depth study was carried out in Rajapur, an arsenic-affected village in West Bengal, India, to determine the degree of groundwater contamination with arsenic and the impact of this contamination on residents. The flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS) metho...
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Our large-scale experiment with 542 families from rural Bangladesh finds substantial intergenerational persistence of economic preferences. Both mothers' and fathers' risk, time, and social preferences are significantly (and largely to the same degree) positively correlated with their children's eco...
Agha Ali Akram, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Rural to urban migration is an integral part of the development process, but there is little evidence on how out-migration transforms rural labor markets. Emigration could benefit landless village residents by reducing labor competition, or conversely, reduce productivity if skilled workers leave. W...
Shyamal Chowdhury
Abstract This study deals with two questions: what role infrastructures can play in promoting paid work opportunities for women and what specific type of infrastructure can reduce women's time burden? The study brings empirical evidence on these two questions in a specific country context. Findings ...
Golam Rabbani, Shyamal K. Saha, Mastura Akhtar, Farzana Marni et al.
To assess the oxidative injuries caused by arsenic toxicity in rabbits and evaluate the detoxifying effects of exogenous antioxidants, we administered arsenic trioxide (3-5 mg/kg/day) in rabbits through a feeding tube for seven days. These rabbits were then treated with a recipe of vitamins, zinc, s...
Máximo Torero, Shyamal Chowdhury, Virgilio Galdo
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and doc...
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22% of households to send a seasonal migrant, th...
Harun Chowdhury, Firoz Alam, Shyamal Biswas, M. Tazul Islam et al.
The quality engineering education is not only challenging but also of paramount importance in today's globalised world. Despite inheriting western engineering education system, the engineering and technological qualifications obtained in Bangladesh are not readily recognized globally mainly due to t...
Anwarul Islam Chowdhury, Md. Jamal Uddin, Tarit Kumar Baul, Jarin Akhter et al.
Shyamal Chowdhury, Varun Satish, Munshi Sulaiman, Yi Sun
Tilak Chandra Nath, Kazi Mehetazul Islam, Nabila Ilyas, Shyamal Kumar Chowdhury et al.
Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Gharad Bryan
The rural northwestern districts of Bangladesh, home to 10 million people, experience a preharvest seasonal famine, locally known as Monga, with disturbing regularity. Surprisingly, outmigration from the Monga-prone districts is not all that common. This research tests whether migration could play a...