Journal article
The Relationship between the School Breakfast Program and Food Insecurity
The Journal of consumer affairs, Vol.51(3), pp.481-500
09/01/2017
DOI: 10.1111/joca.12163
PMCID: PMC6040671
PMID: 30008484
Abstract
Food insecurity rates have risen significantly in the United States, beginning with the recent recession, and remained high. The implications of these high rates are severe in that food insecurity has been associated with a wide range of health, behavioral, social, and cognitive difficulties. This article examines the relationship between the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and food insecurity outcomes. The SBP has the potential to reduce food insecurity because of the direct provision of breakfast to students and the implied income transfer to households. We use state-level cutoffs tied to school-level poverty rates that mandate the provision of the SBP to compare the food security outcomes of students in similar schools, but with different requirements to provide breakfast. Our estimates suggest that state policies requiring schools to offer the SBP have reduced food insecurity for young children.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Relationship between the School Breakfast Program and Food Insecurity
- Creators
- Jason M. Fletcher - University of Wisconsin CollegesDavid E. Frisvold - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of consumer affairs, Vol.51(3), pp.481-500
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1111/joca.12163
- PMID
- 30008484
- PMCID
- PMC6040671
- ISSN
- 0022-0078
- eISSN
- 1745-6606
- Number of pages
- 20
- Grant note
- University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) AG-3198-B-10-0028 / UKCPR through U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison P2CHD047873 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Economics; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283717102771
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