The Impact of School Meals on School Participation: Evidence from Rural India

Farzana Afridi

Journal of Development Studies, 2011, vol. 47, issue 11, 1636-1656

Abstract: This article assesses the effect of transition from monthly distribution of free food grains to the daily provision of free cooked meals to school children on enrolments and attendance in a rural area of India. School panel data allow a difference-in-differences estimation strategy to address possible endogeneity of programme placement. The results suggest that programme transition had a significant impact on improving the daily participation rates of children in lower grades. The average monthly attendance rate of girls in grade one was more than 12 percentage points higher while there was a positive but insignificant effect on grade one boys' attendance rate. The impact on enrolment levels was insignificant.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2010.514330

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