Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes? The Bangladesh Case
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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 differencein-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.
منابع مشابه
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the Food for Education Program in Bangladesh. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) discussion paper 149 (May 2003).
In Bangladesh, pervasive poverty has kept generations of families from sending their children to school, and without education, their childrens future will be a distressing echo of their own. Many children from poor families in Bangladesh do not attend school either because their families cannot afford books and other school materials, or because the children contribute to their familys livel...
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