We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India's school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from packaged food to on-site cooked meals in 2003, with insignificant changes in the budget available...

Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that...

This book reflects the outcome of a long-term involvement in issues of child labour, non-formal education and formal school enrolment. It doc?uments research findings and practical experiences on social, econ?omic and cultural causes of child labour and various pragmatic and theory-?guided...