for girls remain much lower than for boys for disadvantaged populations in many Sub-Saharan countries and some parts of … South Asia (World Bank 2012). One of the key messages of the World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development is …

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

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 …

International evidence indicates that keeping girls in school positively impacts their life trajectory and benefits the … is still needed to ensure that adolescent girls stay in school and complete their education. Starting in the upper grades … of primary school, adolescent girls are more likely to drop out of school than their male counterparts with pregnancy …

spending on education, health care, and nutrition are often more likely to affect adolescent girls than boys. In Malawi … countries if current trends continue. The high prevalence of child marriage and teenage pregnancy among Malawian girls greatly … socio-cultural determinants that perpetuate a vicious cycle for the poorest and most vulnerable girls and have costly …

The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to … than one third of girls still marry as children, and close to three in ten girls have their first child before turning 18 …. Similarly, despite substantial efforts to improve educational attainment, only one in four girls completes lower secondary …

Too many girls drop out of school prematurely, especially in low income countries. Low educational attainment for girls … society. This study documents the potential impacts of educational attainment for girls and women in six domains: (1) earnings …: the potential economic and social costs of not educating girls are large. Low educational attainment reduces expected …

-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 …

that girls engage in income generating activities by 32 percent mainly driven by increased participation in self … probability of having a child decreases by 26 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls reporting sex against their will drops from … 21 percent to almost zero. The findings suggest combined interventions might be more effective among adolescent girls …