Open AccessThe Impact of a Food for Education Program on Schooling in C ambodia
Author(s) -
Cheung Maria,
Berlin Maria Perrotta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
asia and the pacific policy studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.529
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2050-2680
DOI - 10.1002/app5.21
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , psychology , demography , environmental health , demographic economics , medical education , medicine , mathematics education , economics , sociology , nursing
This study is an evaluation of the impact of a food for education program implemented in primary schools (grades 1–6) in six C ambodian provinces between 1999 and 2003. We find that school enrolment increased to varying degrees in relation to different designs of the intervention. We also investigate the effect of the program in terms of completed education and probability of having ever been in school, following up the affected cohorts in a 2009 survey. With an estimated cost of US$85 per additional child in school per year, the program can be considered very cost‐effective within a comparable class of interventions.