contribute to their human capital accumulation, and (ii) households perceive lower returns to investing in older girls than in …

-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the … distribution of girls toward lower socioeconomic status families. The findings have implications not only for counts of missing …

program offers cash benefits to households conditional on girls' regular attendance in secondary grades in government schools …. The study evaluates the evolution of the program's effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers over roughly a … effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers throughout the period and that these effects were stable. This pattern …

"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … similar trends have begun to manifest themselves in the two large populous countries of this region, China and India. The data … less masculinization. This suggests that, with continuing vigorous efforts to reduce son preference, the "missing girls …

daughters' human capital as a result of the program. Families made greater post-natal health investments in eligible girls, with … cohort of eligible school-age girls was not significantly more likely to attend school; however, conditional on first …