also find that the program was particularly effective for girls, increasing their enrollment rate by 5 percentage points …

. Women old enough to have completed secondary school delay both marriage and childbearing …

the effects of school construction on girls' education vary with a widely-practiced marriage custom called bride price … discernible effect on the education of girls from groups without bride price, it had large positive effects for girls from groups … increase with their daughter's education. As a consequence, the probability of a girl being educated is higher among bride …

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 …

Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in … the empowerment of adolescent girls in Malawi during and immediately after the two-year intervention. We find that the … program, which transferred cash directly to school-age girls as well as their parents, had effects on a broad range of …

stronger effects on women. An increase in education, generated by exposure to the law, decreases women's propensity to identify … themselves as religious. Education also lowers women's tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, religious turban or … burka) and it increases their propensity to have a modern lifestyle. Education reduces women's propensity to cast a vote for …

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 … schools built following the extension of compulsory education in Mexico from 6th to 9th grade in 1993. We show that raising …

). While all students benefit, the effects accrue disproportionately to girls. Evidence suggests that the village-based schools … provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove … affects girls more than boys--girls' enrollment falls by 6 percentage points more per mile (19 percentage points total per …

In the early twentieth century, education legislation was often passed based on arguments that new laws were needed to …

to the program attain more education, although women's effects are concentrated in primary school. As adults, men exposed …-in-differences identification strategy exploiting variation across birth cohorts and regions in the number of schools built. Men and women exposed … exposed to the program have improved living standards and pay more government taxes. Education benefits are transmitted to the …