Abstract

This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) program in India intended to build residential schools for girls from historically disadvantaged sections of the society, providing a unique multifaceted policy setting with tenets of gender equality, affirmative action, and infrastructure reform in education. Exploiting the potentially exogenous cross-sectional variations generated by the institutional features of implementation of this intervention, I run triple-difference regressions to find that the program led to increases in body mass index (BMI) among the underweight. There seems to be a positive correlation between KGBV exposure and probability of being in the “healthy” band of BMI indicators.

中文翻译：

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从更好的学校到更好的营养：来自印度的一项学校建设计划的证据

摘要

这是一篇简短的论文，分析了针对性的建校计划对健康指标的潜在影响。印度的Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya（KGBV）计划旨在为社会历史上处于不利地位的地区的女孩建造寄宿学校，提供具有性别平等，平等权利行动和教育基础设施改革宗旨的独特的多方面政策环境。利用实施此干预措施的机构特征所产生的潜在外源性横截面变异，我进行了三差回归分析，发现该程序导致体重过轻的人的体重指数（BMI）升高。KGBV暴露与处于BMI指标“健康”范围内的可能性之间似乎存在正相关。