matriculation exam each year than men, and this has been the case since 1978. We demonstrate how girls gradually manage (on average … distribution) that they maintain into adulthood. The high dropout rate of boys from secondary education explains why fewer people … encourage girls to excel. …

period. We also find that surviving girls are shorter. Second, using monthly time series data for 35 years, we again find … foetal and newborn girls, and on a scale much larger than "dowry deaths" amongst married women which have been the subject of …