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Read moreBackground of the Study:Despite high school enrolment rates, the learning outcomes of students inBangladesh are very low, especially in rural areas (Islam, 2019). Approximately 44%of students cannot read simple words after completion of Grade 1 (USAID, 2021). Inthe National Student Assessment test 2017, around half of fifth-graders failed tomeet grade-level
Lead Researchers: Prof. Asad Islam, Monash University, AustraliaFiroz Ahmed, Associate Professor, Khulna University, BangladeshTabassum Rahman, School of Public Health, University of Newcastle Overview of the study:
Researchers: Asad Islam† Vy Nguyen‡ Russell Smyth§ Zabid Iqbal¶ †Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES), and Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia (Corresponding Author). Email: asadul.islam@monash.edu ‡Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University, Australia §Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia ¶University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Abstract Many women in developing
Despite high school enrolment rates, the learning outcomes of students in Bangladesh are very low, especially in rural areas (Islam, 2019). Approximately 44% of students cannot read simple words after completion of Grade 1 (USAID, 2021). In the National Student Assessment test 2017, around half of fifth-graders failed to meet
Researchers: Michael Vlassopoulosa Abu Siddiqueb Tabassum Rahmanc Debayan Pakrashid Asad Islame Firoz Ahmed** aUniversity of Southampton, UK, and IZA. Email: m.vlassopoulos@soton.ac.uk bTechnical University of Munich, Germany. Email: a.siddique@tum.de cUniversity of Newcastle, Australia. Email: tabassum.rahman@uon.edu.au dIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Email: pakrashi@iitk.ac.in eMonash University, Australia, and J-PAL. Email: asadul.islam@monash.edu **Khulna
Researchers Hashibul Hassan* Asad Islam† Abu Siddique‡ Liang Choon Wang§ * Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia. Email: md.hassan@monash.edu † Corresponding author, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) and Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia, and J-PAL. Email: asadul.islam@monash.edu ‡ Economics Group, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Email: a.siddique@tum.de
Researchers: BangladeshFiroz Ahmeda, Asad Islamb,*, Debayan Pakrashic, Tabassum Rahmand, Abu Siddiquee aEconomics Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh bCentre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) and Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia cDepartment of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India dSchool of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Australia
Researchers: Asad Islama, Wang-Sheng Leeb, Aaron Nicholasc aMonash University, Australia bDeakin University and IZA, Bonn, Australia cDeakin University, Australia We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken by primary school students in a developing country context. We examine the effects on
Researchers: Hemawathy Balarama a,c, Asad Islamac, Jun Sung Kimbb, Liang ChoonWang a,c a Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia b Department of Economics, College of Politics and Economics, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea c Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES), Department of Economics, Monash University,
Educational institutions of the country are closed since 18 March 2020 to contract the spread of coronavirus, therefore, many institutes adopted online education measures to help address their educational challenges. However, online education is quite limited at the university level. Though some schools and colleges from the urban areas are
