Nutrition and cognitive achievement: An evaluation of the School Breakfast Program

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Frisvold, David E.
• 署名单位: University of Iowa
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.003
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 91-104
• 关键词: School Breakfast Program; nutrition; achievement; education

摘要

This paper investigates the impact of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) on cognitive achievement. The SBP is a federal entitlement program that offers breakfast to any student, including free breakfast for any low-income student, who attends a school that participates in the program. To increase the availability of the SBP, many states mandate that schools participate in the program if the percent of free or reduced-price eligible students in a school exceeds a specific threshold. Using the details of these mandates as a source of identifying variation, I find that the availability of the program increases student achievement. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.