We conclude that individuals with low initial participation rates benefitted from the program while the transition in program characteristic did not provide any additional incentives for enrollments to rise. In particular, children in grade 1, who had the lowest attendance rates relative to other grades saw the biggest gain in daily attendance. Although gender disparity in schooling continues to exist in rural India, there does not seem to be a significant difference on enrollment rates for girls and boys in urban areas (NFHS, 2005-06). In Delhi the proportion of 6- 17 year old girls enrolled in a school in 2005-06 was almost 4 percentage points higher than for boys in its urban areas (NFHS, 2005-06). Further, the percentage of underweight boys was higher than the percentage of underweight girls in both 1992 and 1998 in Delhi (NFHS, 1992-93 and 1998-99). These statistics and our data on household characteristics of enrolled children validate our conclusion that boys gained more relative to girls because of their initial lower educational outcomes.