Journal article
Nutrition and cognitive achievement: An evaluation of the School Breakfast Program
Journal of public economics, Vol.124, pp.91-104
04/2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.003
PMCID: PMC4408552
PMID: 25918449
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.
•I examine the impact of the School Breakfast Program on achievement.•The School Breakfast Program provides subsidized breakfast to low-income students.•States require high poverty schools to offer breakfast.•These state requirements increase the availability of breakfast.•The availability of breakfast increases achievement.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Nutrition and cognitive achievement: An evaluation of the School Breakfast Program
- Creators
- David E. Frisvold - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of public economics, Vol.124, pp.91-104
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.003
- PMID
- 25918449
- PMCID
- PMC4408552
- NLM abbreviation
- J Public Econ
- ISSN
- 0047-2727
- eISSN
- 1879-2316
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Grant note
- R03HD067490 / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006381) Emory Global Health Institute Institute for Research on Poverty
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2015
- Academic Unit
- Economics; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283570402771
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