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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w20383 |
来源ID | Working Paper 20383 |
Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women | |
Rachel Heath; A. Mushfiq Mobarak | |
发表日期 | 2014-08-14 |
出版年 | 2014 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage and childbirth. This stems from (a) young girls becoming more likely to be enrolled in school after garment jobs (which reward literacy and numeracy) arrive, and (b) older girls becoming more likely to be employed outside the home in garment-proximate villages. The demand for education generated through manufacturing growth appears to have a much larger effect on female educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling. |
主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Development and Growth ; Development |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20383 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578057 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rachel Heath,A. Mushfiq Mobarak. Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women. 2014. |
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