Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme
dc.contributor.advisor | Delavallade, Clara | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Montgomery, Alex | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-05T06:47:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-05T06:47:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_ZA |
dc.description | Includes abstract. | en_ZA |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.apacitation | Montgomery, 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/11427/11349 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Montgomery, 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/11427/11349 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Montgomery, 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11349 | |
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Montgomery 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/11427/11349 | en_ZA |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.department | School of Economics | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
dc.title | Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme | en_ZA |
dc.type | Master Thesis | |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
dc.type.qualificationname | MEcon | en_ZA |
uct.type.filetype | Text | |
uct.type.filetype | Image | |
uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
uct.type.resource | Thesis | en_ZA |
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