Afridi, Farzana; Barooah, Bidisha; Somanathan, Rohini - 2019
Hunger and malnourishment can adversely affect students' performance by lowering their effort and cognition during … classroom. Using individual level data on the performance of students in a cognitive task both before and after the extension of … cognitive performance of students by 13% to 16%. This result is robust to unobserved heterogeneity in school quality and student …
