Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a …

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Some major challenges for many girls include … absenteeism by 27%. We find continued improvement in girls' attendance and reduction in dropouts two, three, and four years after … the intervention. We also find evidence of improved math test scores, girls expressing higher feelings of control over …

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Two major challenges for many girls are the … girls' attendance and reduction in dropouts two, three, and four years after the intervention. We also find evidence of … improved math test scores, girls expressing higher feelings of control over their lives and, for those who received bicycles …

HIV infection. There is a growing body of evidence that keeping girls in school reduces their risk of contracting HIV. The … equitable expansion of primary and secondary schooling for girls in southern Africa will help reduce their vulnerability to HIV …

secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to … increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age … increasing girls' enrolment than comparable conditional cash transfer programs in South Asia, suggesting that the coordinated …

International evidence indicates that keeping girls in school positively impacts their life trajectory and benefits the … is still needed to ensure that adolescent girls stay in school and complete their education. Starting in the upper grades … of primary school, adolescent girls are more likely to drop out of school than their male counterparts with pregnancy …