Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re- luctance to choose technical occupations …. Possible explanations are the lack of self-confidence of girls in male-dominated subjects, the domi- nating behavior of boys in … coedu- cational classes on the choice of school type for female students. We propose that girls are less likely to choose a …

Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a …

-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … wanted. The estimates show that for every three aborted girls, one additional girl survives to age five. Investigation of the … distribution of girls toward lower socioeconomic status families. The findings have implications not only for counts of missing …

improves school attendance of young and teenage girls, but reduces school attendance of young women (ages 18-22). We also find … members may affect girls' and young women’s education: relaxation of budget constraints, increase in household work, change in …' schooling turns from positive to negative with girls' age; this implies that migration may be detrimental to women’s empowerment …