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Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme
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| author | Montgomery, Alex |
| author2 | Delavallade, Clara |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11349 Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme Montgomery, Alex Delavallade, Clara Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. This paper examines the effects of the South African National School Nutrition Programme on nutritional outcomes using a regression discontinuity design applied to the first wave of the National Income Dynamic Study. There is tentative evidence to suggest that the programme has a positive effect on weight-for- age and BMI-for-age z-scores, but data constraints necessitating the employment of a proxy selection variable and potentially unobserved discontinuity in other variables around the cut-off call into question the validity of the identification strategy. As such, these results should be interpreted with caution. The paper also serves to communicate ideas for identification strategies and estimation techniques that are conditional on the imminent release of new data. 2015-01-05T06:47:54Z 2015-01-05T06:47:54Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MEcon http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Montgomery, Alex Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme |
| title_full | Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme |
| title_short | Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme |
| title_sort | evaluating the south african national school nutrition programme |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349 |
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