girls into adulthood in district Madurai in Tamil Nadu. Children as much as adults are embedded in the micro-contexts of … life course of young girls. From a policy perspective, as long as generations of girls are unable to break out of the …

men based on gender stereotypes and discriminatory norms. Within this context, the spaces that women and girls can safely … lewd comments, obscene gestures, groping, and stalking, that influence the decisions and opportunities of women and girls … workplace limits the mobility of girls for education and training as well as limiting women’s employment opportunities …

earlier research, girls with surviving older sisters had higher mortality rates after their first month of life. Contrary to … one and three years. We conclude that these effects for boys and girls cannot be attributed to problems associated with …

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 …

daughters' human capital as a result of the program. Families made greater post-natal health investments in eligible girls, with … cohort of eligible school-age girls was not significantly more likely to attend school; however, conditional on first …

The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children … reduction in the incidence of malnutrition among girls. The negative association is stronger for girls born in rural households … and at higher birth parities. We find no evidence that prenatal sex selection leads to a selection of girls into families …