Policy-makers have cited menstruation and lack of sanitary products as barriers to girls’ schooling. We evaluate these claims using a randomized evaluation of sanitary products provision to girls in Nepal. We report two findings. First, menstruation has a very small impact on school attendance: we estimate that girls miss a total of 0.4 days in a 180 day school year. Second, improved sanitary t...

Building design and grounds might contribute to physical activity, and youth spend much of their daylight hours at school. We examined the associations among school building footprints, the size of school grounds, and in-school physical activity of 1566 sixth-grade girls from medium to large middle schools enrolled in the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG). The school building footpr...

1 Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 522 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0522, [email protected]. 2 Derek Reamon, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 427 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0427, Dere...

Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household survey, we employ a tripl...

The use of the Inventory with 3 groups of girls is described-75 normal girls studying in 10(th) standard, 75 girls in an approved school with criminal record and 75 girls in the approved school requiring 'care and protection'. The results indicate that most of the sub-tests of the Inventory discriminate the delinquents from the normals. The results are compared with American and British studies...

BACKGROUND Smoking and drinking alcohol among early adolescents are serious public health concerns, but few studies have been conducted in Japan to assess their prevalence and etiology. A regional survey was conducted in eight schools in two Japanese school districts to identify psychosocial factors associated with smoking and drinking behaviors for boys and girls. METHODS Junior high school ...