girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate … exacerbate conditions of vulnerability for girls and women. With a keen eye towards justice, author Kathryn Moeller concludes … that these corporatized development practices de-politicize girls' and women's demands for fair labor practices and a just …

behaviors examined. (2) Welfare reform led to a decrease in volunteering among girls. (3) Welfare reform led to increases in … use among both boys and girls, with generally larger effects for boys (e.g., approximately 6% for boys compared to 4% for … girls for any substance use). (5) The mediators we are able to consider explain little of the observed effects of welfare …

identification of causal effects is particularly challenging in this literature because women enter pregnancy with varying states of …

teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which …

We examine the impact of a large, randomized Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) project in rural Zimbabwe. The … multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, parents, teachers, and …

While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …