schools that provides free individual tutoring online to disadvantaged students during lock-down. Tutors are university … students who volunteer for 3 to 6 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of … potential beneficiaries compiled by school principals. Using original survey data collected from students, parents, teachers and …

-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect … by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of students to peers with highly-educated parents across cohorts … within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases …

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 …

shift schools while boys attend the afternoon shifts, these gender effects may simply reflect benefits from better timed …We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …'s school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from packaged food to on-site cooked meals in …

to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households …Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … (NFHS-3) to conduct the first study that analyzes whether son preference is associated with girls bearing a larger burden of …

in madrasahs, irrespective of their locations, while boys enjoy a higher probability of enrolment in non-madrasah schools …Using a nationally representative data set of Indonesian households and villages, we study the determinants of … enrolment in Islamic schools (i.e., madrasahs) and private non-religious vis-à-vis public non-religious schools. Multinomial …

Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their …

. Implemented in ten secondary schools in Turin (Italy) over the period 2019-2022, the Coding Girls program provided lab … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …This paper evaluates the impact of "Coding Girls", an educational enrichment program designed to address the …

, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … assumptions, the demand for cigarettes is less price elastic among those who smoke for weight control. Thus, taxes on cigarettes …We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control …