Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298745 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA Journal of Labor Policy [ISSN:] 2193-9004 [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 2 [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1-13
Publisher: 
Sciendo, Warsaw
Abstract: 
This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) program in India intended to build residential schools for girls from historically disadvantaged sections of the society, providing a unique multifaceted policy setting with tenets of gender equality, affirmative action, and infrastructure reform in education. Exploiting the potentially exogenous cross-sectional variations generated by the institutional features of implementation of this intervention, I run triple-difference regressions to find that the program led to increases in body mass index (BMI) among the underweight. There seems to be a positive correlation between KGBV exposure and probability of being in the "healthy" band of BMI indicators.
Subjects: 
health
education for girls
BMI
affirmative action
JEL: 
I25
I28
I12
I15
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Document Type: 
Article

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