Data for: SCHOOL FEEDING AND LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA'S MIDDAY MEAL PROGRAM

1. Data Use:
Data were obtained and used by request from ASER. You are kindly requested to respect this and also obtain the authorization from ASER before using these data for a different purpose. Contact details are available here: http://www.asercentre.org/

2. Software:
The analysis was conducted in STATA, v14.2

3. Data files:
Following are raw data files:

a. Cross-sectional household surveys for the years 2005-2012:
aser_2005_hh.dta
aser_2006_hh.dta
aser_2006_hh.dta
aser_2007_hh.dta
aser_2008_hh.dta
aser_2009_hh.dta
aser_2010_hh.dta
aser_2011_hh.dta
aser_2012_hh.dta

b. Cross-section school surveys for the years 2007, and 2009-12:
sch_2007.dta
sch_2009.dta
sch_2010.dta
sch_2011.dta
sch_2012.dta

c. State-level data for the state-level regression results:
states.dta

d. Geographic data base of Indian administrative boundaries, obtained from http://www.gadm.org:
IND*.*
The .shp files could not be uploaded to Mendeley Data. Hence we have provides 2 .shp files along with the manuscript under program files.