Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars
This report summarizes ongoing analysis of overlap between school and farming calendars in Madagascar in collaboration with the World Bank office in Madagascar. Following IFPRI Discussion Paper 2235 (Allen 2024), I develop a community-based measure of overlap as the number of days that the school ca...
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| description | This report summarizes ongoing analysis of overlap between school and farming calendars in Madagascar in collaboration with the World Bank office in Madagascar. Following IFPRI Discussion Paper 2235 (Allen 2024), I develop a community-based measure of overlap as the number of days that the school calendar overlaps with crop calendars that weights the relevance of each crop by the community crop share and then aggregates across crops. A policy simulation of alternative school calendars identifies early January as the best time to start Madagascar's national school calendar (assuming the same structure as the actual school calendar) to avoid overlap with peak farming periods. Further, it finds additional gains can be made to reducing overlap by decentralizing school calendars to the local level and adopting each community's overlap-minimizing calendar. Next steps in 2025 include an empirical analysis that estimates the correlation between overlap and key education outcomes that simulates the potential gains of a locally decentralized overlap-minimizing school calendar. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1634282025-11-06T04:34:13Z Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars Allen IV, James crop calendar farming systems policies schools This report summarizes ongoing analysis of overlap between school and farming calendars in Madagascar in collaboration with the World Bank office in Madagascar. Following IFPRI Discussion Paper 2235 (Allen 2024), I develop a community-based measure of overlap as the number of days that the school calendar overlaps with crop calendars that weights the relevance of each crop by the community crop share and then aggregates across crops. A policy simulation of alternative school calendars identifies early January as the best time to start Madagascar's national school calendar (assuming the same structure as the actual school calendar) to avoid overlap with peak farming periods. Further, it finds additional gains can be made to reducing overlap by decentralizing school calendars to the local level and adopting each community's overlap-minimizing calendar. Next steps in 2025 include an empirical analysis that estimates the correlation between overlap and key education outcomes that simulates the potential gains of a locally decentralized overlap-minimizing school calendar. 2024-12 2024-12-12T21:42:42Z 2024-12-12T21:42:42Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163428 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138825 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Allen IV, James. 2024. Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars. Project Note December 2024. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163428 |
| spellingShingle | crop calendar farming systems policies schools Allen IV, James Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars |
| title | Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars |
| title_full | Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars |
| title_fullStr | Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars |
| title_short | Overlapping school and farming calendars in Madagascar: Simulating gains of alternative school calendars |
| title_sort | overlapping school and farming calendars in madagascar simulating gains of alternative school calendars |
| topic | crop calendar farming systems policies schools |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163428 |
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