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dc.contributor.author | Jayaraman, Rajshri | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-13T15:00:20Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-13T15:00:20Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39926 | - |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aVerein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer |cGöttingen | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aProceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Frankfurt a.M. 2009 |x15 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I2 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O22 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O12 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | education | en |
dc.subject.keyword | school lunches | en |
dc.subject.keyword | quasi-natural experiment | en |
dc.title | The impact of school lunches on school enrolment: Evidence from an exogenous policy change in India | - |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 654210292 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:zbw:gdec09:15 | en |
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