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Xin Meng, Jim Ryan
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| Title: |
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 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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| Published: |
J Popul Econ (2010) 23 (2): 415-447
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| Keywords: |
Education - Program evaluation
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| Jel: |
J38 - I28
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