Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? The Bangladesh case |
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Authors: | Xin Meng Jim Ryan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK;(2) Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK;(3) German Socio-Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany;; |
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Abstract: | The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program
on school participation and duration of schooling using household survey data collected in 2000. Using propensity score matching
combined with difference-in-differences methodologies, we find that the program is successful in that eligible children on
average have 15% to 26% higher school participation rates, relative to their counterfactuals who would have been eligible
for the program had they lived in the program-eligible areas. Conditional on school participation, participants also stay
at school 0.7 to 1.05 years longer than their counterfactuals. |
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