Information Campaign on Arsenic Poisoning: Unintended Consequences in Marriage Market
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Keywords
arsenic contamination; health shock; information campaign; age at first marriage; bride price; age at first birth; Bangladesh;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2023-07-17 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2023-07-17 (Health Economics)
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