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 …

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 …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as … 9 months. We explore possible explanations of this greater commitment to girls including explicit parental preference …

products) to adolescent girls in rural Nepal. Girls in the study were randomly allocated a menstrual cup for use during their …. While girls were 3 percentage points less likely to attend school on days of their period, we find no significant effect of … self-esteem or gynecological health. These results suggest that policy claims that barriers to girls' schooling and …

mortality risk in Sri Lanka between 1946 and 1953, which creates a sharp increase in life expectancy for school-age girls …

the likelihood that girls go on to complete a bachelor's degree, substituting the latter with junior college degrees. It … 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 …