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Abstract
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.Entities:
Keywords: School Breakfast Program; achievement; education; nutrition
Year: 2015 PMID: 25918449 PMCID: PMC4408552 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Public Econ ISSN: 0047-2727