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Proposed mechanism linking childhood illness to gender gap in secondary education. The figure depicts the conceptual relationship between early childhood illness, the adolescent gender gap in schooling, and long-run health and socioeconomic outcomes. The diagram depicts a vicious cycle of gender inequality that can be broken at various points by interventions.
