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Title:Educational and child labour impacts of two food-for-education schemes: evidence from a randomized trial in rural Burkina Faso
Authors:Kazianga, HarounanISNI
De Walque, DamienISNI
Alderman, HaroldISNI
Year:2012
Periodical:Journal of African Economies (ISSN 0963-8024)
Volume:21
Issue:5
Pages:723-760
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:educational policy
primary education
food consumption
school meals
academic achievement
child labour
External link:https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/5/723.full.pdf
Abstract:This paper uses a prospective randomized trial to assess the impact of two food-for-education schemes on education and child labour outcomes for children from low-income households in northern rural Burkina Faso. The two food-for-education programmes under consideration are, on the one hand, school meals where students are provided with lunch each school day, and, on the other hand, take-home rations which provide girls with 10 kg of cereal flour each month, conditional on 90 percent attendance rate. After the programme ran for one academic year, both programmes increased enrolment by 3-5 percentage points. The scores on mathematics improved for girls in both school meals and take-home rations villages. Conditional on enrolment, the interventions caused attendance to decrease, but this was mainly driven by lower attendance among new enrolees. The interventions also led to adjustment in child labour, with children (especially girls) with access to food-for-education programmes, in particular the take-home rations, shifting away from on farm labour and off-farm productive tasks which possibly are more incompatible with school hours. App., bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract]
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