valuation De LLImpact Des Programmes De Cantines Scolaires Sur LLEfficacitt Interne Des coles, Les Acquisitions Cognitives Et Les Capacitts DDApprentissage Des llves Dans Les coles Primaires Rurales AU SSnngal (Impact Evaluation of School Canteen Programs on School Internal Efficiency, Cognitive Acquisitions and Student Learning Capacities in Rural Primary Schools in Senegal)

Diagne, Abdoulaye; Diallo, Fatoumata L.; Lô, Mouhamadou Moustapha

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Impact of nutrition on students’ achievements: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

Kholti,

Liouaeddine,

JOUHARI

2024

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This study investigated the impact of school canteen nutrition on the academic performance of students in sub-Saharan Africa using data from the PASEC-2019 survey. Employing propensity score matching, we found a significant positive effect of school canteens on students' math and reading scores. Specifically, the impact was estimated at 20.46 points for mathematics and 25.49 points for reading. The effect varied by gender, with girls showing slightly greater improvements: an average increase of 21.46 points in mathematics and 27.10 points in reading, compared to 19.91 and 25.33 points for boys, respectively. However, disparities were observed between countries, with some showing significant impacts while others did not. This comparative analysis underscores the role of school canteens as a crucial factor in enhancing educational outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Impact of nutrition on students’ achievements: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

Kholti,

Liouaeddine,

JOUHARI

2024

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Does School Quality Matter? Primary Schools' Characteristics and Child Labor Intensity in Senegal

V.¹,

Diene²

2017

Journal of African Development

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This study analyzes the relationship between school quality and child labor in Senegal. Unlike previous studies that consider child labor as primarily due to household poverty, economic shocks or market imperfections, it tries to assess whether the perceptions that households have about the capacity of investments in education to provide their children with a significant gain can motivate their interest or their disinterest to send them to school and / or to involve them immediately into work. From a simple theoretical model we develop, we show how school quality may influence the choices that households make for their children concerning schooling or labor. We then assess empirically that relationship using the Senegal's DHS-MICS data of 2010-2011 and the Statistical Yearbook of the Ministry of National Education. The Heckman's two-step model combined with the two-step approach proposed in Card and Krueger (1992) have been employed to deal with the problems suggested by the theoretical model. Our empirical findings confirm the theoretical model's results. They indicate that the labor options that households make for their children in Senegal depend on the schools' characteristics in this country. More precisely, we find that an increase of the pupils-teacher ratio and of the rate of grade repetition, seems be considered by households as a signal of bad quality of school. They lead respectively to an increase of the burden of works performed by children in economic and domestic activities.

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Impact of nutrition on students’ achievements: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

Impact of nutrition on students’ achievements: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

Does School Quality Matter? Primary Schools' Characteristics and Child Labor Intensity in Senegal

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