958 research outputs found
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 âparadox of the contented female workerâ. 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
Sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) from the Pakistan coast
The taxonomy of sessile cirripeds from the Pakistan coast is described. Out of the 15 species, seven are reported for the first time from the area. Specific taxonomic characters of all the species are described and their previous records from adjacent areas are discussed
Tackling Indiaâs 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 Indiaâs already high levels of gender inequality will deepen thanks to the pandemic
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
Investigating the effectiveness of a POE-based teaching activity on studentsâ understanding of condensation
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article reports on the development of a PredictâObserveâExplain, POEbased
teaching strategy to facilitate conceptual change and its effectiveness on student
understanding of condensation. The sample consisted of 52 first-year students in primary
science education department. Studentsâ ideas were elicited using a test consisting of five
probe questions and semi-structured interviews. A teaching activity composed of three
PredictâDiscussâExplainâObserveâDiscussâExplain (PDEODE) tasks was employed,
based on studentsâ preconceptions identified with the test. Conceptual change in studentsâ
understanding of condensation was evaluated via a pre-, post-, and delayed post-test
approach and studentsâ interviews. Test scores were analyzed using both qualitative and
quantitative methods. The findings suggested that the strategy helps students to achieve
better conceptual understanding for the concept of condensation and enables students to
retain these new conceptions in their long-term memory
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Divisible Deliveries and Pickups
The vehicle routing problem with divisible deliveries and pickups is a new and interesting model within
reverse logistics. Each customer may have a pickup and delivery demand that have to be served with
capacitated vehicles. The pickup and the delivery quantities may be served, if beneficial, in two separate visits.
The model is placed in the context of other delivery and pickup problems and formulated as a mixed-integer
linear programming problem. In this paper, we study the savings that can be achieved by allowing the pickup
and delivery quantities to be served separately with respect to the case where the quantities have to be served
simultaneously. Both exact and heuristic results are analysed in depth for a better understanding of the problem
structure and an average estimation of the savings due to the possibility of serving pickup and delivery
quantities separately
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