Is literacy shared within households? Theory and evidence for Bangladesh

Labour Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 649-665

  Basu, Kaushik ^a   Narayan, Ambar ^b,c   Ravallion, Martin ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Earnings; Externalities; Household behavior; Leteracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035713216     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(01)00048-3     Document Type: Article

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