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The impact of school lunches on primary school enrollment : evidence from India's midday meal scheme
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Simroth, Dora - 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 … India and is the largest school feeding program in the world. To isolate the causal effect of the policy, we make use of …
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The political scar of epidemics
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
with the (in)effectiveness of a government's healthcare-related responses to past epidemics. We document this mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506921
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When distrust goes viral : causal effects of Covid-19 on European political attitudes
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020
To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work : Malawi's ITN distribution program
Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...
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Covid-induced school closures in the US and Germany : long-term distributional effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
Almost all countries worldwide closed schools at the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis. I document that schooling time dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas,...
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The association of opening K-12 schools and colleges with the spread of Covid-19 in the United States : county-level panel data analysis
Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021
This paper empirically examines how the opening of K-12 schools and colleges is associated with the spread of COVID-19 using county-level panel data in the United States. Using data on foot traffic and K-12 school opening plans, we analyze how an increase in visits to schools and opening schools...
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The effects of free secondary school track choice : a disaggregated synthetic control approach
Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021
We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggregated synthetic control...
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School feeding and learning achievement : evidence from India's midday meal program
Chakraborty, Tanika; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2016
We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in public primary schools generates plausibly exogenous...
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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009
We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861779
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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011
-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 …
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