The Impact of Home Grown School Feeding Program(HGSFP) on Child Education and Nutrition in Nigeria.

Nwaobi, Godwin (2023): The Impact of Home Grown School Feeding Program(HGSFP) on Child Education and Nutrition in Nigeria.

Abstract

As a lower income country with extreme poverty status, Nigeria is characterized by very large informal sector. Consequently, National Social investment programme (NSIP) of the Nigerian government were created to enshrine the value and vision for graduating Nigerian citizens from poverty circles through capacity building, investment and direct support. Specifically, the National Home Grown school feeding program (NHGSFP) is a government – led (cost effective) school feeding programme that uses food grown locally by small holding farmers to tackle critical poverty issues. However, school program and their evaluation is complex.

Yet, there is relatively little evidence on the mechanisms through which they operate as well as their effects on desirable outcomes. Thus, using detailed administrative records for program participants, follow-up surveys and field experiments; we shall construct Randomized Control Trial (RCT) models that will allow us to establish the effects of the NHGSF programme on primary education and welfare in the selected states of Nigeria.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Nigeria, poverty education, welfare, RCT models, impact evaluation, Nigerian States, Randomized Control, primary education, Randomization, field experiment, retention, academic performance, class attendance, hunger health.
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology ; Computer Programs > C83 - Survey Methods ; Sampling Methods; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C90 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C93 - Field Experiments; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I25 - Education and Economic Development; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I28 - Government Policy; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J43 - Agricultural Labor Markets; L - Industrial Organization > L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing > L66 - Food ; Beverages ; Cosmetics ; Tobacco ; Wine and Spirits; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy

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