Girls Count A Global Investment & Action Agenda

By Ruth Levine, C. Lloyd, M. Greene, C. Grown. 2008

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7b191a95b0b75eef2ed2fbb731c75f4905fcfe7b

Citations in the corpus

• Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women (2015, unknown): “Our research design permits a study of investments in girls relative to boys, which is of considerable policy (Levine et al. 2009; Chaaban and Cunningham 2011; Gibbs 2011; Girl Up 2011; World Bank 2011a; World Bank 2011b) and also academic interest, given the comparative advantage girls possess in s”
• When the money runs out: Do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation? (2016, unknown): “In fact, adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic target group to successfully break the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries (Levine et al. 2008).”
• Measuring the Economic Gain of Investing in Girls: The Girl Effect Dividend (2011, unknown): “School dropout rates for girls are higher than those for boys in most developing countries, partly due to reasons outside the girl’s control, such as early marriage or cultural norms that prioritize investments in boys (Levine et al. 2009).”