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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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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 …
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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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investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls' education attainment. The estimates suggest that the …
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Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major. Given that students are assigned to schools based on...
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that the underperformance of girls in math is sharply reduced in the regions of the former GDR, in contrast with those of … the former FRG.We show that this East-West difference is due to girls' attitudes, confidence and competitiveness in math …
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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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secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the …
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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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This paper evaluates the impact of "Coding Girls", an educational enrichment program designed to address the … underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in Italy by stimulating young …. Implemented in ten secondary schools in Turin (Italy) over the period 2019-2022, the Coding Girls program provided lab …
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