implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible … girls in middle school increased in the short term by nearly 9 percentage points. This paper uses regression discontinuity …. Beneficiary adolescent girls are more likely to progress through and complete middle school and work less. There is suggestive …

are consistent with potential behavioral explanations, such as the program making girls' education salient to households … or catalyzing a shift in social norms around girls' education …While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program …

conditional cash transfer experiment among teenage girls and young women in Malawi, which was designed to address these …. Policymakers looking to design cost-effective cash transfer programs targeted toward young women should note the relative …

, particularly girls and beneficiaries in rural areas. Regarding long-term impact on tests scores, the analysis shows that program …

This study examines the medium-term effects of a two-year cash transfer program targeted to adolescent girls and young … women. Significant declines in HIV prevalence, teen pregnancy, and early marriage among recipients of unconditional cash … women …

Despite dramatic global gains in access to education, 130 million girls of school age remain out of school. Among those … that benefit both girls and boys -- significantly improve girls' education, then focusing only on girl … to synthesize evidence on how to improve educational outcomes for girls have tended to focus on interventions that are …

Education conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they … an education conditional cash transfer program, when given to parents independently of any transfer, can have a …

education provision by creating a diverse curriculum for the use of the extra time in school. Unlike the model prevalent in most … provide education in a format in which students attend a seven-hour daily shift. A subset of Single-Shift schools was …

delivery mechanisms on education. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional … enrollment of "marginal children" who are initially less likely to go to school, such as girls, younger children, and lower …