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 … constrained budgets, better designed school transfer programs can improve student level outcomes. …

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 …At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches - known …

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 …At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches – known …

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 …At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches – known …

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 …At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches – known …

In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down … to about 5 percent. Adjusted net primary school attendance rates have increased from 90.8 percent in 2008 to 96 ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary …