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 …

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

have saved at least 0.7 million girls – relative to boys – if the government had implemented it in 2001 to 2005. Additional … results on postnatal channels show substantial impacts on the long-term health outcomes of surviving girls, as rainfall no … longer differentially affects girls' height-for-age, relative to boys', following the program's implementation …

for girls than boys, a magnitude considered as very large.When this difference is controlled for, the gender gap in …

the likelihood that girls go on to complete a bachelor's degree, substituting the latter with junior college degrees … aspirations and to more risky behavior (including having a child before age 18). The girls most strongly affected are those in the … a bachelor's degree from 2.2-4.5 percentage points, depending on the group. Greater exposure to "high-achieving" 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 …

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 …

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 …

We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity … find an increase of around 50% in the number of girls and boys taking the high school exit exam from a low baseline, as …