More women than men graduate with a university degree every year in this country, but men are more likely to complete … an apprenticeship. Almost two women complete college for every one man. In addition, more women complete their … matriculation exam each year than men, and this has been the case since 1978. We demonstrate how girls gradually manage (on average …

eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls' education and this drives much of their …

are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that … expose girls, who are often marginalized within their communities, to new risks if it encourages them to violate prevailing … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …

increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer … resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing the bargaining power of women reduces pro-boy discrimination. We … find that expenditure patterns do vary with proxies for women's bargaining power. Pro-boy discrimination is suggested by …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the …