School Meals Are Evolving: Has the Evidence Kept Up?
School meal programs are popular social programs. They are provided to 61 percent of primary students in high-income countries but to a smaller share of students in less wealthy countries.
Alderman, Harold
Educational and health impacts of two school feeding schemes: Evidence from a randomized trial in rural Burkina Faso
This paper uses a prospective randomized trial to assess the impact of two school feeding schemes on health and education outcomes for children from low-income households in northern rural Burkina Faso.
Food for thought? Experimental evidence on the learning impacts of a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana
There is limited experimental evidence of the impact of large-scale, government-led school meals programs on educational achievements. The authors report results from a nationwide randomized trial of the Government of Ghana’s school feeding program.