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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 …
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secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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that the underperformance of girls in math is sharply reduced in the regions of the former GDR, in contrast with those of … the former FRG.We show that this East-West difference is due to girls' attitudes, confidence and competitiveness in math …
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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 to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...
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This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and the role of connections in promoting women in research activities. Exploiting a newly collected data set on recruitment processes to entry-level research positions in a leading Italian research centre...
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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 …
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for girls than boys, a magnitude considered as very large.When this difference is controlled for, the gender gap in …
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