Population Studies and Training Center
Funding National Institute on Aging
Geographic Location Bangladesh
Tags Faculty International Research

Long-term effects of health and development interventions in rural Bangladesh

Research

Empirical microeconomist Andrew Foster studies the long-term impacts of the maternal and child health and family planning project that was introduced into the Matlab Demographic Surveillance area in rural Bangladesh in the late 1970s.

Bangladesh familyA multi-purpose data set is being collected from a population of Matlab residents and former residents and these data are being used to explore whether households exposed to the treatment program have received long-term benefits.

Investigator

  • Andrew Foster

    Andrew Foster

    Associate Director of the PSTC | Economics, George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics