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 …
