with detailed information on teenage jobs allows for a comparison of the behavior of boys and girls who are in the same … substantially more than girls. The earnings gap cannot be explained by differences in participation rates and hours of work, nor by … gender wage gaps within job types. It is entirely due to the fact that girls work more in job types with relatively low wages …

Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in … the empowerment of adolescent girls in Malawi during and immediately after the two-year intervention. We find that the … program, which transferred cash directly to school-age girls as well as their parents, had effects on a broad range of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We examine the impact of a randomized Girls' Education Challenge project implemented in rural Zimbabwe. The … multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, caregivers, teachers, and …