Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme

dc.contributor.advisorDelavallade, Claraen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMontgomery, Alexen_ZA
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dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes abstract.en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMontgomery, A. (2012). <i>Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMontgomery, Alex. <i>"Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMontgomery, A. 2012. Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Montgomery, Alex AB - 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. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme TI - Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMontgomery A. Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.titleEvaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programmeen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMEconen_ZA
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