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Author-Name: Azomahou, T.
Author-Email: azomahou@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Diallo, F.L.
Author-Email: diallo@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Author-Name: Raymond, W.
Author-Email: w.raymond@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: SBE, Maastricht University
Title: The harmony of programs package: Quasi-experimental evidence on deworming
	 and canteen interventions in rural Senegal 
Abstract: This paper uses a unique and large-scale quasi-experimental data to 
	 study the effect of deworming and school meals programs as a package on 
	 educational outcomes pupils test scores aggregate, French or math; 
	 enrollment, promotion or dropout rates in rural Senegal. We extend the 
	 endogenous selection model  la Heckman to incorporate a double-index 
	 selection mechanism. We also generalize the Roy model accordingly. We 
	 develop estimation strategies based on the full information maximum 
	 likelihood and the two-step method. We derive a wide and rich collection 
	 of treatment effects ranging from exclusive to relative effects including
	 sequential and substitution effects. The results show that the combination
	 of deworming and school meals programs is more beneficial to pupils
	 achievements than taking programs separately. The sequence of 
	 implementation does matter. The two programs are complementary in 
	 increasing scores and promotion rates. However, they are substitutes in 
	 reducing dropouts. The cost-effectiveness analysis shows the deworming 
	 program is by far cheaper than the meals intervention. Implementing 
	 meals program before deworming is more cost-effective than the reverse. 
	 Lastly, unlike the deworming, meals program and the package deworming 
	 and meals have a welfare-enhancing effect on households.
Classification-JEL: C31, C34, I25, O22
Keywords: Deworming programs, school meals programs, project analysis, double-index
	 selection, complementarity vs. substitutability, educational outcomes,
	 quasi-experiment, social welfare, Africa, Senegal
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20140331
Number: 2014-026
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2014/wp2014-026.pdf 
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File-Size: 988 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014026