@inproceedings{Jayaraman2009impact,
abstract = {Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing countries might advance school participation. In November, 2001 the Indian Supreme Court issued a remarkable interim order directing errant Indian states to other children in government primary schools a warm school lunch. This paper uses this exogenous policy change to evaluate the impact of school lunches on early primary school enrolment. It finds that the introduction of a school lunch is associated with a 25 per cent increase in class 1 enrolment. There is, however, no evidence to suggest that school lunches bridge the overall gender or caste gaps in enrolment.},
address = {G\"{o}ttingen},
author = {Rajshri Jayaraman},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I2; O22; O12; 330; education; school lunches; quasi-natural experiment},
language = {eng},
number = {15},
publisher = {Verein f\"{u}r Socialpolitik, Ausschuss f\"{u}r Entwicklungsl\"{a}nder},
series = {Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Frankfurt a.M. 2009},
title = {The impact of school lunches on school enrolment: Evidence from an exogenous policy change in India},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39926},
year = {2009}
}
