Similarly, business process outsourcing
(BPO) opportunities affect education of
women.
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In randomly selected villages in In-
dia, three years of BPO recruiting services were
provided to women primarily to increase aware-
ness and information about the employment
opportunities. Given that the intervention was
at the level of the village, the study found large
effects—three years later, girls ages 5–15 in the
villages that received the intervention were 3–5
percentage points more likely to be in school,
had a higher body mass index (a measure of
health), and were 10 percent more likely to be
employed in wage work. Human capital invest-
ments for boys did not change. The interven-
tion did not change either structures within the
household (for instance, the bargaining power
of the mother) or the way schools functioned.
Information about market returns alone suf-
ficed to increase female enrollment and improve
outcomes for girls