steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … in India of boys performing better. …

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … in India of boys performing better. …

analysis of mechanisms reveals that the intervention modified the production function of children's skills, by lowering the …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries …. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …