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For colored girls? : factors that influence teacher recommendations into advanced courses for black girls

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Girls, girls, girls : gender composition and female school choice

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Remember when it rained : the elusiveness of gender discrimination in Indian school enrollment

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

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 …

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Measuring the economic gain of investing in girls : the girl effect dividend

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Water hauling and girls' school attendance : some new evidence from Ghana

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Empowering women : the effect of schooling on young women's knowledge and use of contraception

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Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...

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Are immigrants and girls graded worse? : results of a matching approach

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Missing girls in Spain

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Girls for sale? : child sex ratio and girls trafficking in India

Prakash, Nishith; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2014

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