Jayaraman, Rajshri; Simroth, Dora - CESifo - 2011
locally as “midday meals” – in government primary schools. This paper provides a large-scale assessment of the enrollment … effects of India’s midday meal scheme, which offers warm lunches, free of cost, to 120 million primary school children across …,000 schools observed annually from 2002 to 2004, we find that midday meals result in substantial increases in primary school …