are consistent with potential behavioral explanations, such as the program making girls' education salient to households … or catalyzing a shift in social norms around girls' education …While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program …

outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect girls' schooling in Ghana … significant negative relation between girls' school attendance and water hauling activity, as a halving of water fetching time … increases girls' school attendance by 2.4 percentage points on average, with stronger impacts in rural communities. The results …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …. -- rainfall ; gender discrimination ; school enrollment ; education ; India …