Non-compliance and Non-response in Randomised School Meals Experiment: Evidence from Rural Senegal
| Autor: | Abdoulaye Diagne, Fatoumata L. Diallo, Théophile Azomahou |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Mt Economic Research Inst on Innov/Techn, RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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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 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of African Economies, 28(5), 533-557. Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 0963-8024 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jae/ejz008 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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