Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …

investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls' education attainment. The estimates suggest that the …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …

levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian … trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …

secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to … increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age … increasing girls' enrolment than comparable conditional cash transfer programs in South Asia, suggesting that the coordinated …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …

The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling …. The model incorporates home production, which is critical for understanding the behavior of mothers when deciding girls …' schooling. Results suggest that monetary incentives are a good mechanism to increase girls' school enrollment, but not the most …

with detailed information on teenage jobs allows for a comparison of the behavior of boys and girls who are in the same … substantially more than girls. The earnings gap cannot be explained by differences in participation rates and hours of work, nor by … gender wage gaps within job types. It is entirely due to the fact that girls work more in job types with relatively low wages …

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Two major challenges for many girls are the … girls' attendance and reduction in dropouts two, three, and four years after the intervention. We also find evidence of … improved math test scores, girls expressing higher feelings of control over their lives and, for those who received bicycles …