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 …

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 …

secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the …

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 …

The rise in education of women relative to men is an emerging worldwide phenomenon in recent decades. This paper … investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls' education attainment. The estimates suggest that the … policies explain 30 percent of the education increase for women born in 1945-1980 and 50 percent of the gender gap narrowing in …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in … levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed …