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 …

The paper focuses on the various obstacles which comes in the way of achieving girls education focuses on some … like Cash Transfer has a positive impact on Girls Education. The paper finally gives certain policy recommendations for …

Despite dramatic global gains in access to education, 130 million girls of school age remain out of school. Among those … to synthesize evidence on how to improve educational outcomes for girls have tended to focus on interventions that are … principally targeted to girls, such as girls' latrines or girls'scholarships. But if general, non-targeted interventions -- those …

The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling …. The model incorporates home production, which is critical for understanding the behavior of mothers when deciding girls …' schooling. Results suggest that monetary incentives are a good mechanism to increase girls' school enrollment, but not the most …

operationalization. This note lays out a pragmatic Operational Approach to enhancing women's and girls' empowerment in World Bank …Gender equality has long been central to the World Bank's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared … prosperity in a sustainable manner. More recently, women's and girls' empowerment (WGE) has become a priority in the Africa …