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Cultural norms, economic incentives and women’s labour market behaviour: Empirical insights from Bangladesh
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-12)
This paper sets out to explore a seeming puzzle in the context of Bangladesh. There is a considerable body of evidence from the country pointing to the positive impact of paid work on women’s position within family and ...
Enrolling girls without learning: Evidence from public schools in Afghanistan
(Wiley Online Library, 2017-11-22)
While more girls are now attending school in Afghanistan than prior to 2010, there is a lack of evidence on how school attendance is helping their cognitive development. We use data from a large sample of all-girls ...
Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a bidding game approach
Background: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income ...
How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? Evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
(SSRN, 2017-03-26)
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel ...
Retention of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a case-control study
Alam, K., Tasneem, S., & Oliveras, E. (2012). Retention of female volunteer community health workers in dhaka urban slums: A case-control study. Health Policy and Planning, 27(6), 477-486. doi:10.1093/heapol/czr059
Men’s perspectives on women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence in rural Bangladesh
(© 2017 Routledge, 6/9/2017)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase as women in patriarchal societies become empowered, implicitly or explicitly challenging prevailing gender norms. Prior evidence suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between ...
How far does a big push really push? Long-term effects of an asset transfer program on employment trajectories
(University of Chicago Press Journals, 2019-09-09)
BRAC launched its Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in 2002 to address ultrapoverty in Bangladesh using an asset transfer approach combined with multifaceted training ...
Intersecting barriers to adolescents’ educational access during COVID-19: Exploring the role of gender, disability and poverty
(Elsevier, 2021-09)
This article explores the social determinants of adolescents’ access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic in three diverse urban contexts in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Jordan. It provides novel empirical data from the ...
Changes in extreme poverty in Bangladesh (2000–2015): Trend, dynamics, and implications for research and interventions
(Practical Action Publishing, 2018)
Headcount extreme poverty in Bangladesh has been declining since 2000, but how has the profile and income distribution of the poorest changed and what do these mean for intervention design and directions for innovations? ...
Labor markets and poverty in village Economies
(Oxford Academic, 2017-03-20)
We study how women's choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable ...