Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190027 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/182
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Food for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s. This paper examines the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils' attendance and girls' enrolment rate within primary schools in northern Burkina Faso. Using difference-in-difference (DID) estimation with the data set on the Beoog Biiga programme, we find that take-home rations (THRs) increased school attendance for both boys and girls. Moreover, the findings show that girls' enrolment rate within schools increased by 3.2 per cent. This is driven by the increase in the number of newly enrolled girls compared with boys. We conclude that THRs have the potential to increase girls' educational attainment and gender equality within schools.
Subjects: 
school feeding programme
take home ration
enrolment
attendance
Burkina Faso
JEL: 
D04
I21
I25
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-408-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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