School participation in rural India

By J. Drèze, Geeta Gandhi Kingdon. 2001

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What Policies Will Reduce Gender Schooling Gaps in Developing Countries: Evidence and Interpretation (2008, background): “In rural India, Dreze and Kingdon (2001) report that various measures of school quality have larger or more significant impacts on girls’ primary enrollments than boys’; the most impressive difference is in the impact of providing mid-day meals in schools, which raises the female enrollment probabil”
Low cost private schooling in India: Is it pro poor and equitable? (2011, methodology): “in the hope of improving matters; or to exit from the organization, to take one’s business elsewhere’ (Hirschman, 1978, p. 90). To exercise voice is, at least in theory, possible in most systems, but where there is choice, it is often found that all those who can, will tend to exercise the ability t”
Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes (2013, background): “Drèze and Kingdon ð2001Þ find that providing a midday meal in India raised girls’ school attendance by 15 percentage points.”
Growth Theory through the Lens of Development Economics (2004, positive): “(1998) and Dreze and Kingdon (2001)] and one experimental trial conducted among pre-school children in Kenya [Vermeersch (2002)]. The available evidence, therefore, points toward a robust elasticity of schooling decisions with respect to the cost of schooling. While this could be indicative of house”
Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries (2006, background): “Many of the studies described above support this hypothesis: Chin (2002), regarding placement of additional teachers in schools; Drèze and Kingdon (2001), on the provision of midday meals; and both Schultz (2004) and Morley and Coady (2003), in their evaluations of PROGRESA.”
School Feeding Programs and Development : Are We Framing the Question Correctly? (2012, positive): “The gender specific impacts reported from Burkina Faso are in keeping with a common expectation that FFE will have greater impacts on girls than boys (Dréze and Kingdon 2001; Gelli, Meir, and Espejo 2007).”
Recent Social Security Initiatives in India (2017, positive): “…well established, including the positive effects of midday meals on school attendance, pupil achievements, food security and child nutrition (Drèze and Kingdon, 2001; Drèze and Goyal, 2003; Khera, 2006, 2013; Drèze and Khera, 2009a; Afridi, 2010, 2011; Afridi, et al., 2013; Singh et al.,…”
The bumpy road from food to nutrition security – Slow evolution of India's food policy (2017, background): “While there is a large body of work which shows that MDMS has led to an increase in school enrollment and attendance rates (Afridi, 2011; Bonds, 2012; Drèze and Kingdon, 2001; Jayaraman and Simroth, 2015), there is little empirical work on the role of MDMS in improving nutritional outcomes.”