selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls … use of such practices is reflective of the striking inequities girls face today, and it also has negative implications for … that have girls. This paper takes stock of the direct measures used across countries grappling with skewed child sex ratios …

development of the country. This paper analyzes the impact of the conflict on the level and access to education of boys and girls … rates in 2001, and the longer-term impact of the conflict on primary school completion of cohorts of children observed in …

very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health … gender gaps in most developmental outcomes. As such, the interest is in examining also whether migration-induced resource … flows allow households to extend better nutrition and health care protection to girls. Recent work on the intra …

The effect of weather shocks on children's anthropometrics is investigated using the two most recent rounds of the … Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. For this purpose, climate data for each survey cluster are interpolated using daily … diarrhea. The impacts of weather shocks on health are of considerable magnitude; however, children seem to catch up with their …

productivity across male and female plot managers in Nigeria. The analysis utilizes the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, which … allows for decomposing the unconditional gender gap into (i) the portion caused by observable differences in the factors of … production, while there are no significant gender differences in the South. In the decomposition results, the structural effect …

This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well …

Despite dramatic global gains in access to education, 130 million girls of school age remain out of school. Among those … to synthesize evidence on how to improve educational outcomes for girls have tended to focus on interventions that are … principally targeted to girls, such as girls' latrines or girls'scholarships. But if general, non-targeted interventions -- those …