Afridi, Farzana; Barooah, Bidisha; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016
's school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from packaged food to on-site cooked meals in … and child-level panel data to find that cooked meals resulted in a 3-4 percentage point rise in average monthly attendance … meals. We also find attendance gains concentrated in schools that served diverse menus. Our results suggest that even within …