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 …

experimentally evaluating a financial incentive to delay marriage alongside a girls' empowerment program designed to shift norms. As … predicted, girls eligible for the incentive are 19% less likely to marry underage, as are nonpreferred type women ineligible for …

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 …

The literature on "missing girls" suggests a net preference for sons both in China and among Chinese immigrants to the … West. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that newborn Chinese-American girls are treated more intensively in US hospitals: they … responding to worse health at birth of Chinese-American girls. We document higher rates of low birth weight, congenital anomalies …