there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional …

selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls … suggests that there is no conclusive evidence that direct approaches reduce the higher mortality risk for girls. Bans on the … use of such practices is reflective of the striking inequities girls face today, and it also has negative implications for …

) program in Nimba County, Liberia. GE seeks to help 13 to 14 year-old girls make healthy life choices and decrease their risk … of sexual abuse. The program centers on weekly meetings between girls and trained local mentors, during which the girls … this group, 29 percent indicated that their first sexual act was non-consensual. Among all GE girls, 37 percent reported …

This study contributes to the literature on legal institutions and determinants of adult mortality. The paper explores … the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have …

as investment in Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highways, trade liberalization and domestic reforms that India undertook since …

in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender … female entrepreneurs?This paper analyzes the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing …

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective … mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large …

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

that benefit both girls and boys -- significantly improve girls' education, then focusing only on girl …. General interventions have similar impacts for girls as for boys. Many of the most effective interventions to improve access …Despite dramatic global gains in access to education, 130 million girls of school age remain out of school. Among those …

India. The data indicate that child sex ratios are peaking in these countries, and in many sub-national regions are …