From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India

From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India

This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) program in India intended to build residential schools for girls from historically disadvantaged sections of the society, providing a unique m...

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Main Author: Chatterjee Somdeep
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-03-01
Series:IZA Journal of Labor Policy
Subjects:
health
education for girls
bmi
affirmative action
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/izajolp-2020-0002
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spelling doaj-eb98a919cbc0486796adb9f8b65c91ea2021-09-05T21:02:07ZengSciendoIZA Journal of Labor Policy2193-90042020-03-0110114916010.2478/izajolp-2020-0002izajolp-2020-0002From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in IndiaChatterjee Somdeep0Business Environment (Economics) Group, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, IIM Road, Prabandh Nagar, Lucknow 226013, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaThis is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) program in India intended to build residential schools for girls from historically disadvantaged sections of the society, providing a unique multifaceted policy setting with tenets of gender equality, affirmative action, and infrastructure reform in education. Exploiting the potentially exogenous cross-sectional variations generated by the institutional features of implementation of this intervention, I run triple-difference regressions to find that the program led to increases in body mass index (BMI) among the underweight. There seems to be a positive correlation between KGBV exposure and probability of being in the “healthy” band of BMI indicators.https://doi.org/10.2478/izajolp-2020-0002healtheducation for girlsbmiaffirmative actioni25i28i12i15
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From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India
IZA Journal of Labor Policy
health
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title From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India
title_short From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India
title_full From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India
title_fullStr From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India
title_full_unstemmed From better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in India
title_sort from better schools to better nourishment: evidence from a school-building program in india
publisher Sciendo
series IZA Journal of Labor Policy
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publishDate 2020-03-01
description This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) program in India intended to build residential schools for girls from historically disadvantaged sections of the society, providing a unique multifaceted policy setting with tenets of gender equality, affirmative action, and infrastructure reform in education. Exploiting the potentially exogenous cross-sectional variations generated by the institutional features of implementation of this intervention, I run triple-difference regressions to find that the program led to increases in body mass index (BMI) among the underweight. There seems to be a positive correlation between KGBV exposure and probability of being in the “healthy” band of BMI indicators.
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education for girls
bmi
affirmative action
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