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Big sisters
Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; Fernald, Lia C. H.; … - 2020
contribute to their human capital accumulation, and (ii) households perceive lower returns to investing in older girls than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390590
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Big sisters
Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; Fernald, Lia C. H.; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654024
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth : evidence from Bangladesh
Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2016
There are many studies on the effects of conditional cash transfer programmes on enrolment, productivity and poverty reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect. This paper provides new evidence on effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547653
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476554
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Friendship and female education : evidence from a field experiment in Bangladeshi primary schools
Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asad; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984026
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Girls helping girls : the impact of female peers on grades and educational choices
Schøne, Pål; Simson, Kristine von; Strøm, Marte - 2017
secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613430
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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?
Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017
We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … remittance-dependent economies in the world. Using data from a three-wave household panel survey conducted in 2007, 2009, and … 2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls' school attendance differs markedly by age. School attendance of young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639661
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309995