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Distance to school is a major barrier to education in the developing world. This barrier can be much more prominent for girls, who often report more substantial safety concerns. This paper uses primary data from World Visions IGATE-T program and propensity score matching to determine the effect that distributing bicycles had on girls’ feelings of empowerment, test scores, and school attendance. Overall bicycles led to an increase in literacy and numeracy test scores by .23 and .28 standard deviations respectively. There was no clear effect on attendance or empowerment. I also find evidence that bicycles increased the number of days the student reported being late; which may be explained by an increase in attendance.

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