School Feeding or General Food Distribution? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Educational Impacts of Emergency Food Assistance during Conflict in Mali. |

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Mali

Policy Area

Policy

Authors

Aurino, Elisabetta, et al.

Year

2019

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Form of exploitation

Child Labour

Affected group

Households

Location

Local

Result on Child labour

School feeding led to lower participation and time spent in work among girls, while the food distribution program raised children’s labour, particularly among boys.

Other results

School feeding led to increases in enrolment by 10 percentage points and to around an additional half-year of completed schooling. However, ttendance among boys in households receiving the generalised food distribution (GFD) declined by about 20 per cent relative to the comparison group. School feeding mostly raised attainment among children in areas not in the immediate vicinity of conflict.

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