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 …

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 …

impact of a school-based life skills intervention in grades six and seven within a sample of 2,459 girls in Rajasthan, India …, more equitable gender norms, and stronger socio-emotional support. Girls also drop out of school at a lower rate: we …

, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage … and childbirth. This stems from (a) young girls becoming more likely to be enrolled in school after garment jobs (which … reward literacy and numeracy) arrive, and (b) older girls becoming more likely to be employed outside the home in garment …

firms, one for Tanzania covering 2008-2016 and one for Ethiopia covering 1996-2017. Our analysis reveals a dichotomy between …

We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self …

We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated …