What Works in Girls' Education

By G. Sperling, R. Winthrop, Christina T. Kwauk. 2015

132 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls’ education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provided evidence that high-quality girls’ education around the world leads to wide-ranging returns: Better outcomes in economic areas of growth and incomes Reduced rates of infant and maternal mortality Reduced rates of child marriage Reduced rates of the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria Increased agricultural productivity Increased resilience to natural disasters Women’s empowerment What Works in Girls’ Educationis a compelling work for both concerned global citizens, and any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research

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In Education

1. Fei Yuan
2. David K. Evans
3. Pamela Jakiela
4. Katharine M. Conn

In Safety Research

1. Fei Yuan
2. David K. Evans
3. Pamela Jakiela
4. Simone G. Schaner

Citations in the corpus

• Gender gaps in education: The long view (2021, background): “…two other literatures, one on the impacts of girls’ education on outcomes for girls and others (Mensch et al., 2019; Psaki et al., 2019; Qureshi, 2017), and another on what interventions are most effective at improving girls’ education (Sperling and Winthrop, 2015; Evans and Yuan, 2019).”
• What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls (2019, background): “Investing in girls’ education has been called “the world’s best investment” (Sperling and Winthrop 2015).”
• Bride Price and Female Education (2020, unknown): “These findings are particularly important given the high economic and social returns associated with female education (e.g., Sperling and Winthorp 2016, 4).”