Returns to education in Bangladesh

This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey. Returns are estimated separately for rural and urban samples, males, females and private sector employees. Substantial heterogeneity in returns is observed; e.g. estimates are higher for urban (than rural sample) and female samples (compared to their male counterparts). Our ordinary least square estimates of returns to education are robust to control for types of schools attended by individuals and selection into wage work.Education, labor market participation, sample selection, Bangladesh

Farm Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Education Revisited

This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing hous eholds from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency. A full set of proxies for farm education stock variables are incorporated to investigate the 'internal' as well as 'external' returns to education. The external effect is investigated in the context of rural neighborhoods. Our analysis reveals that in addition to raising rice productivity and boosting potential output, household education significantly reduces production inefficiencies. However, we are unable to find any evidence of externality benefit of schooling. We discuss the implication of these findings for rural education programs in Bangladesh.Agriculture, returns to education, stochastic production frontier, Bangladesh, Labor and Human Capital, Productivity Analysis, I21, Q12, N5,

Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the “paradox of the contented female worker”. After establishing that females report higher levels of job satisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost the satisfaction of women proportionately more than that of men, thereby explaining why the former are reportedly happier. The results prove that WLB practices increase the likelihood of reporting higher satisfaction but similarly for both demographic groups thereby reducing the gender gap in job satisfaction only slightly. Still, the results indicate that WLB practices at the forefront of worker welfare policy improve the wellbeing of the workforce. Experiments with firm-fixed effects allowed by the matched dimension of the data reveal that firm effects are relevant but they only explain a half of the gender gap in job satisfaction, suggesting that the other half may be due to individual heterogeneity.job satisfaction, work-life balance practices, gender segregation, matched employer-employee data

Social attitudes that view female child marriage as a means of protecting respectability need to change

Drawing on their extensive research of female child marriage in Bangladesh, M Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj discuss the limitations of current deliberations over the minimum age of marriage law. They write that improving the agency of adolescent girls to make their own life choices should help reduce the incidence the child marriage more effectively than what can be achieved with legislative reform alone

Tackling India’s deepening gender inequality during COVID-19

As India slowly re-opens its economy following its emergency national measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Kalyani Raghunathan (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi) and M Niaz Asadullah (University of Malaya, Malaysia) explain how India’s already high levels of gender inequality will deepen thanks to the pandemic

Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

Using aggregate indices of education, health, demographic, and gender equality outcomes, we empirically investigate the hypothesis that Bangladesh achieved a higher level of social development compared with countries of similar level of per capita income. Stylized facts and cross-country regression results support this hypothesis for a broad range of dimensions. Further tests show that such achievements do not simply reflect income-mediated channels and social expenditure programs. We conclude by speculating on the role of Bangladesh’s development to sustain the process of growth and on the role of governance and institutional quality for the nexus between growth and development

Potensi Terapi Rimpang Pletekan (Ruellia Tuberosa L.) Terhadap Kadar Mda (Malondialdehyde), Insulin, Aktivitas Sod (Superoxide Dismutase) Dan Gambaran Histopalogi Pada Organ Pankreas Tikus Diabetes Hasil Induksi Multiple Low Dose Streptozoticin (Mld-Stz)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemberian ekstrak akar pletekan terhadap kadar MDA (malondialdehyde), insulin, aktivitas SOD (Superoxide Dismutase) dan gambaran histopalogi pada organ pankreas. Pada penelitian ini hewan coba yang digunakan adalah tikus putih strain wistar dengan berat rata-rata 180 gram yang di induksikan dengan Multiple Low Dose Streptozoticin (MLD-STZ) dengan dosis 20 mg/kgBB selama 5 hari berturut-turut. Pengukuran kadar glukosa diukur dengan glucometer digital dan dinyatakan DM apabila kadar glukosa mencapai 200 mg/dL. Ekstrak akar pletekan diberikan dengan dosis 250 mg/kgBB dan dosis 500 mg/kgBB selama 21 hari berturut-turut. Kandungan yang diidentifikasi positif golongan triterpenoid menggunakan uji fitokimia. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pemberian terapi ekstrak akar pletekan dengan dosis 250 mg/kgBB dan 500 mg/kgBB pada tikus yang diinduksi MLD-STZ menunjukkan penurunan kadar glukosa darah berturut-turut sebesar 52.95% dan 64.24%. penurunan kadar MDA sebesar 27.27% dan 67.53%. peningkatan aktivitas SOD sebesar 77.85% dan 87.65% dan peningkatan kadar insulin sebesar 13.25% dan 22.69% serta perbaikan kerusakan jaringan pankreas mendekati normal pada dosis 500 mg/kgBB

Inculcating ethical values in the students through e-Learning platform

with the encompassing speed of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the world is developing with time; the gap between the have and have not is widening. The greed for materialistic and worldly things is increasing. The trend can be partially contributed to the modern education system, where total emphasis is on domain and technical knowledge. Teaching of moral values is considered as an integral part of the education in Islam. The contents of our formal education syllabi are gradually throwing out material on character development. With the busy schedule of individuals, the role of character development by the family and society is diminishing. The only hope is left with the teacher. In the e-Learning platefrom that hope is also disappearing because of physical absence of teacher. The work will analyze the learning models and role of ethical development. It is also proposing a model using ICTs which can help in the character d