Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2011
implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible … girls in middle-school increased in the short term by nearly 9 percentage points. This paper uses regression discontinuity …. Beneficiary adolescent girls are more likely to progress through and complete middle school and work less. There is suggestive …