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Non-compliance and Non-response in Randomised School Meals Experiment: Evidence from Rural Senegal
- Source :
- Journal of African Economies, 28(5), 533-557. Oxford University Press
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- School meals have been introduced as an important policy tool to improve education outcomes and pupil’s nutritional status. This study uses a unique and large-scale randomised field experiment to assess the effectiveness of such programmes on pupils’s performance (test scores in French, mathematics and the aggregate) and on the internal efficiency of schools (enrolment, promotion, repetition and dropout) in rural Senegal. We show that attrition and non-compliance occurred not at random in the experiment. Relying on the average treatment effect and the complier effects, we find that the programme has a positive and significant impact on pupils’ scores and on the enrolment rate. However, the repetition rate increased. The intervention has a marked gender effect. Cost-effectiveness analysis shows that deworming intervention is more cost-effective than school meals.
- Subjects :
- IMPACTS
Economics and Econometrics
student
050204 development studies
education
rural area
education outcomes
Development
food quality
compliance
school meals
experimental study
complier effects
PROGRAMS
FOOD
Environmental health
0502 economics and business
Non compliance
Economics
Analysis of Education
050207 economics
cost-effectiveness
Health and Economic Development
05 social sciences
academic performance
randomised experiment
EDUCATION
Senegal
i15 - Health and Economic Development
TRIAL
NUTRITION
i21 - Analysis of Education
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09638024
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of African Economies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....91c23a064b10dcd038f0528e0e5541b0