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| Title: | | The impact of school lunches on school enrolment: Evidence from an exogenous policy change in India  |
| Authors: | | Jayaraman, Rajshri |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Frankfurt a.M. 2009 15 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | education school lunches quasi-natural experiment |
| JEL: | | I2 O22 O12 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2009 (Frankfurt a.M.)
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