India has reduced male-biased gender gaps in primary school enrollment and progression rates in recent years. However, patterns of early childhood education enrollment, selection of preschool, and related gender gaps remain inadequately studied. This study uses data from India’s National...

Adolescent motherhood has been linked with poor health outcomes at birth for children, including high neonatal mortality, low-birth weight, and small-for-gestational age rates. However, longer term growth outcomes in the children of adolescent mothers in low-resource settings remain inadequately...

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...