This study evaluates the impact of school canteen programs on the performance of rural primary schools in Senegal using a “randomized experiment”. 120 schools which had never had school canteens were selected in the four poorest regions of Senegal. They were randomly assigned to treatment...

French Abstract: Cette étude évalue l’impact des programmes de cantines scolaires sur les performances des écoles primaires rurales du Sénégal à travers une « expérimentation randomisée ». 120 écoles n’ayant jamais été dotées de cantines scolaires ont été sélectionnées dans...

This paper assesses the impact of school feeding programs on internal effectiveness (dropout and grade repetition) of public primary schools in Senegalese rural area using a “randomized trial”. Our study sample consists of 120 schools, which did not have school canteens before the...