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Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Causal Evidence from Life Skills Programming

View ORCID ProfileManisha Shah, View ORCID ProfileSarah Baird, View ORCID ProfileJennifer Seager, Benjamin Avuwadah, View ORCID ProfileJoan Hamory, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Amita Vyas
Journal of Human Resources, April 2024, 59 (S) S317-S364; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1222-12707R2
Manisha Shah
Manisha Shah is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research .
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Sarah Baird
Sarah Baird is Professor of Global Health and Economics in the Department of Global Health at George Washington University.
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Jennifer Seager
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Joan Hamory is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma.
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