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  1. Female seclusion from paid work
    a social norm or cultural preference?
    Autor*in: Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2019]
    Verlag:  ECARES, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Marriage timing and forward contracts in marriage
    Autor*in: Aldashev, Gani; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2019]
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  3. Can child marriage law change attitudes and behaviour?
    experimental evidence from an information intervention in Bangladesh
    Autor*in: Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2020]
    Verlag:  School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

    The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined by social... mehr

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    The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined by social norms rather than the law. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that formal laws can influence social norms and marriage behaviour in a setting with weak law enforcement. We do this by administering a randomised video-based information treatment that accelerates knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh. Our information treatments led to a change in participants' own attitudes and behaviour (including reported attitudes regarding appropriate marriage age and willingness to contribute to a charity that campaigns against child marriage), but did not substantially influence their beliefs about attitudes or practices prevalent in their community. Follow-up surveys conducted 5 and 10 months after the intervention show an increase in early marriage among adolescent girls within treatment households. These perverse effects are driven by households where the father and family elders were informed about the new law but are absent in households where only the mother is informed. The findings highlight a) the existence of informational frictions within housholds and b) the risk of a backlash effect against a law that contradicts traditional norms and practices.

     
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  4. Early marriage, social networks and the transmission of norms
    Autor*in: Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: August 2016
    Verlag:  The University of Manchester Global Development Institute, Manchester

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  5. Missing from the market
    purdah norm and women's paid work participation in Bangladesh
    Autor*in: Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht

    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... mehr

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    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 capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by endowment differences. Instead, community norms such as the practice of purdah (i.e. female seclusion) have a statistically significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable affect paid work participation indirectly, via determining the labor force participation decision. The correlation between current work participation and purdah norm in natal household is insignificant confirming that the result is not driven by omitted individual-specific socioeconomic factors. We also use data on past purdah practice of the current community to estimate an instrumental variable Probit regression model and rule out the possibility of reverse causality. Detailed decomposition analysis reveals that community purdah norm accounts for a quarter of the total unexplained gap. The findings are robust to controls for the influence of co-resident inlaws, household structure, marital status, and a wide range of community characteristics such as ecological factors, presence of NGOs, provision of public infrastructure, remoteness and local labor market conditions including the norm of unacceptability of unmarried women's outside work in the community.

     
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  6. Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives?
    family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso
    Autor*in: Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht

    We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso)... mehr

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    We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were offered, at the prevailing market price, a rainfall index insurance product that can potentially protect their rural relatives from adverse weather shocks. The product had an uptake of 22% during the two-week subscription window. Uptake rates were higher by 17-22 percentage points among urban migrants who were randomly offered an insurance policy that would make pay-outs directly to the intended beneficiary rather than the subscriber. We argue that rainfall index insurance can complement informal risk-sharing networks by mitigating problems of informational asymmetry and self-control issues.

     
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  7. Marriage, work, and migration
    the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
    Autor*in: Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: November 2019
    Verlag:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage... mehr

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    Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration-if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating grooms. Guided by a model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be inextricably linked by the possibility of marital migration. We use the construction of a major bridge in Bangladesh-which dramatically reduced travel time between the economically deprived north-western region and the industrial belt around Dhaka-as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in migration costs. In accordance with our model's predictions, we find that the bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women coming from families above a poverty threshold.

     
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  8. Guilt, esteem, and motivational investments
    Autor*in: Ghatak, Maitreesh; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 17 August 2020
    Verlag:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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  9. Early effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on children in rural Bangladesh
    Autor*in: Makino, Momoe; Shonchoy, Abu; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: January 21, 2021
    Verlag:  Florida International University, Department of Economics, [Miami, FL]

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    Schriftenreihe: Working papers / Florida International University, Department of Economics ; 2104
    Schlagworte: COVID-19; school closure; child marriage; children's time allocation; Bangladesh
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  10. Early effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on children in rural Bangladesh
    Autor*in: Makino, Momoe; Shonchoy, Abu; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2021]
    Verlag:  School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

    Using data collected through a telephone-based survey in rural Bangladesh during the height of the pandemic, we present evidence on the effects of COVID-19-led lockdown and school closures on children, focusing on three child-related outcomes: time... mehr

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    Using data collected through a telephone-based survey in rural Bangladesh during the height of the pandemic, we present evidence on the effects of COVID-19-led lockdown and school closures on children, focusing on three child-related outcomes: time use of children during the school closure, plans regarding children’s schooling continuation, and the incidence of child marriages. Our analysis reveals heterogeneity in the effects of lockdown and school closure in terms of the child’s gender and the type of shocks. We find a decrease in children’s study time and an increase in time spent on household chores during the school closure, and these changes were significantly larger for girls than for boys. Within the household, respiratory illness lowered expectations that a child would return to school and increased the probability of marriage-related discussions for girls. Our findings offer a cautionary tale regarding the potential longterm effects of pandemic for girls in developing countries.

     
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    Schlagworte: COVID-19; school closure; child marriage; children's time allocation; Bangladesh
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  11. Behind the veil of cultural persistence
    marriage and divorce in a migrant community
    Autor*in: Guirkinger, Catherine; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 08 July 2021
    Verlag:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Schriftenreihe: Array ; DP16347
    Schlagworte: gender; Family Economics; Marriage; Non-western immigrants
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  12. Personalized information provision and the take-up of emergency government benefits
    experimental evidence from India
    Autor*in: Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Malde, Bansi; Mitra, Anirban; Pakrashi, Debayan; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2022]
    Verlag:  School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

    The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of households, resulting in widespread poverty and food insecurity. To mitigate these effects, many governments have introduced additional benefits as part of their... mehr

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of households, resulting in widespread poverty and food insecurity. To mitigate these effects, many governments have introduced additional benefits as part of their existing welfare schemes. However, there is often a gap between the introduction of these programs and access to the benefits. To shed light on the source of these gaps, we conduct a field experiment with just over 1,000 slum-dwelling households in Uttar Pradesh, India during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention randomly exposed individuals to personalised information about government benefits via cell phones. We find that the simple and low-cost provision of personalised information i) increased the accuracy and precision of participants' knowledge about their entitled benefits, ii) increased access to and utilization of benefits, and iii) improved wellbeing (as measured through consumption, food insecurity and mental health). We do not find significant differences in effects based on whether males or females are targeted. Our findings show that there are large gaps in knowledge of and access to government benefits (despite widespread publicity about the programs) which can be reduced via a simple and low-cost information intervention.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: School of Economics discussion papers / University of Kent ; KDPE 2201 (May 2022)
    Schlagworte: COVID-19; Government Benefits; Emergency Aid; Information Intervention
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  13. Can child marriage law affect attitudes and behaviour in the absence of strict enforcement?
    experimental evidence from Bangladesh
    Autor*in: Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 2022
    Verlag:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    In developing countries, one in four girls is married before turning 18, with adverse consequences for their own and their children's human capital. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes and behaviour towards child marriage... mehr

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    In developing countries, one in four girls is married before turning 18, with adverse consequences for their own and their children's human capital. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes and behaviour towards child marriage - in a context in which the laws are not strictly enforced. We do so using a randomised video-based information intervention that aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher punishments for facilitating early marriage. Follow-up surveys documented an increase in early marriage among treated households if the father or family elders received the information. The findings allow us to distinguish between two competing theoretical channels underlying the effect of legal change and highlight the risk of backlash against laws that contradict traditional norms and practices.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1107
    Schlagworte: age of marriage; social norms; formal institutions; legal change
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  14. Access to microfinance and female labour force participation
    Autor*in: Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Shreya, Nudrat Faria; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: February 2021
    Verlag:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood. We fill... mehr

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    Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with household survey data and implement a spatial regression discontinuity design. Our estimates suggest significant effects of access to credit on women's work; attitudes towards gender, social and employment norms; and psychosocial well-being. Access to credit increases labour force participation in terms of paid employment and traditional economic participation. Relatedly, respondents are more likely to be prevented from working by their husbands or other household members. They are also more likely to express traditional beliefs in relation to gender, social, and employment norms. Finally, access to credit leads to a loss in life satisfaction, financial satisfaction, health satisfaction, and overall happiness.

     
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    Schlagworte: microfinance; female entrepreneurship; psychosocial well-being; gender norms; regression discontinuity design; Bangladesh
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  15. Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?
    Autor*in: Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2020]
    Verlag:  Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice Italy

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    Schriftenreihe: Working paper / Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics ; 2020, no. 24
    Schlagworte: Fertility; gender bias; birth spacing; female employment; Bangladesh
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  16. To invest or not to invest in sanitation
    the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
    Autor*in: Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2021]
    Verlag:  Institute for Fiscal Studies, [London]

    We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that –... mehr

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    We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that – as long as the wife is involved in household decision-making – the intra-household differences in perceptions we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife has higher benefit perception, whereas successful conversion to a toilet depends on differences in monetary cost perceptions. The estimated effects are consistent with the predictions of a model of intra-household decision-making.

     
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    Schlagworte: sanitation; perceptions; intra-household bargaining; microfinance; gender
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  17. Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives?
    family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso
    Autor*in: Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: March 2018
    Verlag:  Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, [Milano]

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    Schriftenreihe: Development studies working papers / Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano ; n. 436
    Schlagworte: Microinsurance Markets; Indexed Insurance; Rainfall; Migration; Informal Insurance Networks
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  18. Marriage, work and migration
    the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
    Autor*in: Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

    Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using... mehr

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    Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating grooms. Guided by a model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be inextricably linked by the possibility of marital migration. To test our hypotheses, we use the event of the construction of a major bridge in Bangladesh - which dramatically reduced travel time between the economically deprived north-western region and the industrial belt located around the capital city Dhaka - as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in migration costs. In accordance with our model's predictions, we find that the bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women coming from families above a poverty threshold.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: School of Economics discussion papers / University of Kent ; KDPE 1810 (September 2018)
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  19. The effects of risk and ambiguity aversion on technology adoption
    evidence from aquaculture in Ghana
    Autor*in: Crentsil, Christian; Gschwandtner, Adelina; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

    We study how aversion to risk and ambiguity affects the adoption of new technologies by Ghanaian smallholder aquafarmers. We conduct a set of field experiments designed to elicit farmers' risk and ambiguity preferences and combine it with surveybased... mehr

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    We study how aversion to risk and ambiguity affects the adoption of new technologies by Ghanaian smallholder aquafarmers. We conduct a set of field experiments designed to elicit farmers' risk and ambiguity preferences and combine it with surveybased information on their technology adoption decisions. We find that aquafarmers who are more risk-averse were quicker to adopt the new technologies: a fast-growing breed of tilapia fish, extruded feed and floating cages. By contrast, ambiguity aversion has no effect on the adoption of the new tilapia breed and extruded feed. Furthermore, it slows down the adoption of floating cages - a technology which entails higher fixed costs than the others - and the effect is diminishing in the number of other adopters in the village. We argue that these differential effects are due to the fact that the technologies are risk-reducing, with potential ambiguity about their payoff distributions at the early stages of adoption. The findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between risk and ambiguity in investigating technology adoption decisions of small-holder farmers in developing countries.

     
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  20. Social diversity and bridging identity
    Autor*in: García-Alonso, María del Carmen; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

    We investigate within a model of cultural transmission the conditions under which increased social diversity within a population - e.g. due to the inflow of immigrants - raise the potential for conflict as opposed to harmonious social diversity.... mehr

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    We investigate within a model of cultural transmission the conditions under which increased social diversity within a population - e.g. due to the inflow of immigrants - raise the potential for conflict as opposed to harmonious social diversity. Drawing on evidence from psychological studies, we develop the concept of "bridging identity", an individual trait that (i) directly affects utility in culturally diverse social groups but is immaterial in culturally homogeneous social groups; (ii) is fostered (probabilistically) in those born in culturally diverse social groups but not in those born in culturally homogeneous social groups. We find first, increased cultural diversity within a population can lead to more mixed social groups or increased segregation depending on the paceof change. This is in contrast to Schelling's models of residential segregation which would always predict increased segregation. Furthermore, a temporary negative shock to bridging identity can trigger a dynamic process of segregation in the form of outmigration from culturally diverse social groups. But, paradoxically, if the shock is severe enough, its effects are mitigated.

     
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    Schlagworte: Multikulturelle Gesellschaft; Einwanderung; Soziale Beziehungen; Soziale Gruppe; Sozialisation; Soziale Ausgrenzung; Segregation; Diskriminierung; Migranten; Wirtschaftssoziologie
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  21. Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives?
    family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso
    Autor*in: Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  School of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

    We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso)... mehr

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    We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were offered, at the prevailing market price, a rainfall index insurance product that can potentially protect their rural relatives from adverse weather shocks. The product had an uptake of 22% during the two-week subscription window. Uptake rates were higher by 17-22 percentage points among urban migrants who were randomly offered an insurance policy that would make pay-outs directly to the intended beneficiary rather than the subscriber. We argue that rainfall index insurance can complement informal risk-sharing networks by mitigating problems of informational asymmetry and self-control issues.

     
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  22. Is the internet better than electricity?
    Autor*in: Brookes, Martin; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 2000
    Verlag:  Goldman Sachs, New York [u.a.]

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    Schriftenreihe: Global economics paper ; 49
    Schlagworte: Produktivität; Technischer Fortschritt; Wirtschaftswachstum; Schlüsselindustrie; Elektrizitätswirtschaft; Vergleich; Internet; Informationstechnik; USA
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  23. Social barriers to female migration
    theory and evidence from Bangladesh
    Autor*in: Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using... mehr

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    Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be inextricably linked by the possibility of marital migration. To test our hypotheses, we use the event of the construction of a major bridge in Bangladesh - which dramatically reduced travel time between the economically deprived north-western region and the manufacturing belt located around the capital city Dhaka - as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in migration costs. Our empirical ffndings support our model's main predictions and provide strong evidence for the existence of social barriers to female migration.

     
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  24. Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh?
    Autor*in: Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: December 2020
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we show,... mehr

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    Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We examine a number of different hypotheses for the decline in son preference, including the increasing availability of female employment in the manufacturing sector, increased female education, and the decline of joint family living. Using survival analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son preference.

     
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  25. The shocking economic effect of B2B
    Autor*in: Brookes, Martin; Wahhaj, Zaki
    Erschienen: 2000
    Verlag:  Goldman Sachs, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Schriftenreihe: Global economics paper ; 37
    Schlagworte: Lieferantenmanagement; Internet; Schock; Wirtschaftswachstum; Inflation; Zins; USA; Japan; Deutschland; Frankreich; Großbritannien; Wirkungsanalyse
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