from girls cycling to school in groups, and changes in patriarchal social norms that proscribed female mobility outside the …We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in … secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to …

in the 6-10 age group. Using a household-level longitudinal survey covering 43 villages in a poor state in India, we find … more likely to enter the labour force). Further, using a nationally representative survey for India (National Sample Survey …

sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian … increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed …

India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional … enroll boys and not girls, and not through differential expenditure on girls and boys. The results also suggest that the … results suggest that an important mechanism through which households spend less on girls than boys is by sending sons to fee …

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 …

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 …

This paper evaluates the impact of "Coding Girls", an educational enrichment program designed to address the … underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in Italy by stimulating young …. Implemented in ten secondary schools in Turin (Italy) over the period 2019-2022, the Coding Girls program provided lab …

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

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 …

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 …