| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23218 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23218 |
| School Lunch Quality and Academic Performance | |
| Michael L. Anderson; Justin Gallagher; Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-03-06 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has long argued that a healthy diet can have a second important impact: improved cognitive function. In this paper, we test whether offering healthier lunches affects student achievement as measured by test scores. Our sample includes all California (CA) public schools over a five-year period. We estimate difference-in-difference style regressions using variation that takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch vendor score higher on CA state achievement tests, with larger test score increases for students who are eligible for reduced price or free school lunches. We do not find any evidence that healthier school lunches lead to a decrease in obesity rates. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23218 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580891 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael L. Anderson,Justin Gallagher,Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie. School Lunch Quality and Academic Performance. 2017. |
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| w23218.pdf（722KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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