eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls’ education and this drives much of their …

are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that … expose girls, who are often marginalized within their communities, to new risks if it encourages them to violate prevailing … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an …

performers on girls' high school placement outcomes. We disentangle two channels through which peers of either sex can play a … academic performance. Exposure to good peers of either sex reduces the degree to which high-achieving girls seek placement in … more-selective schools. High-achieving boys have particularly strong, negative effects on high-performing girls' admission …