more rigidly enforced outside a girl's own hamlet. Results indicate a substantial decrease in primary school enrollment … rates for girls who have to cross hamlet boundaries to attend, irrespective of school distance, an effect not present for … boys. However, low-caste children, both boys and girls, are deterred from enrolling when the most convenient school is in a …

"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects … greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …