expose girls, who are often marginalized within their communities, to new risks if it encourages them to violate prevailing …Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters … eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls’ education and this drives much of their …

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take-up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use …

children’s education. During the first lockdown, schools were closed to all but the most vulnerable children and those with key … the course of the lockdown; instead, learning time fell among those who were not offered the chance to return to school …. Pupils who returned to school saw their learning time rise substantially, even conditional on observable and unobservable …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student … sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resulting …