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Girls! Girls! Girls! : The Supreme Court Confronts the G-String

Adler, Amy - 2006

What is it about the nude female body that inspires irrationality, fear, and pandemonium, or at least inspires judges to write bad decisions? This Article offers an analysis of the Supreme Court's nude dancing cases from a perspective that is surprising within First Amendment discourse. This...

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Girls Helping Girls : The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices

Schøne, Pål - 2017

secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the …

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The Economic Effects of Girls’ and Young Women’s Education in Development

Keller, Katarina R. I. - 2019

. Moreover, the gender parity index, with girls to boys enrolled, is regressed for each level, as well as primary and secondary …

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What We Learn About Girls' Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls

Evans, David K. - 2019

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 …

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Short-Term Impacts of a Cash Transfer Program for Girls' Education on Academic Outcomes : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Malawian Secondary Schools

Kim, Booyuel - 2016

This paper evaluates a randomized controlled trial of a cash transfer program for the girls' education by studying the …

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Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production : Evidence from Pakistan

Reis, Hugo - 2015

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 …

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Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India

Prakash, Nishith - 2014

levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian … trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …

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Maternal Mortality, Religion and the Enrolment of Girls and Boys : Is There a Link?

Cooray, Arusha V. - 2014

We investigate empirically the impact of maternal mortality on the enrolment rate of girls and boys at the primary and … girls and boys, with the negative greater for girls than for boys. For girls, the negative effect of maternal mortality is …

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Empowering Women : The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Andalon, Mabel - 2014

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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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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 …

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