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 …

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 …

finds that fertility decreases are mainly caused by fewer transitions to a third birth. Graduate women participating in the … formal labor market are most at risk of deciding against child arrival in comparison with inactive or unemployed women. The … third rank is particularly concerned, as women?s income contribution seems to be crucial for many families that already have …

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 … evidence that participating girls delay their marriage and have fewer births by the time they are 19 years old. Girls who are …

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 …

percentage points more likely to be HIV positive, and women whose partner is a migrant miner are 8 percentage points more likely …' migration into South Africa has increased the spread of HIV/AIDS in their countries of origin. Consistent with this …