The effect of providing breakfast on student performance. Evidence from an in-class breakfast program.

Autor/inn/en	Imberman, Scott A.; Kugler, Adriana D.
Titel	The effect of providing breakfast on student performance. Evidence from an in-class breakfast program.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2012), 28, [11] S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. 17720
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsertrag; Schule; Ernährungsverhalten; Ernährungspolitik; Arbeitspapier; USA
Abstract	"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. In response to low take-up, many public schools have experimented with moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom. We examine whether such a program increases performance as measured by standardized test scores, grades and attendance rates. We exploit quasi-random timing of program implementation that allows for a difference-in-differences identification strategy. Our main identification assumption is that schools where the program was introduced earlier would have evolved similarly to those where the program was introduced later. We find that in-class breakfast increases both math and reading achievement by about one-tenth of a standard deviation relative to providing breakfast in the cafeteria. Moreover, we find that these effects are most pronounced for low performing, free-lunch eligible, Hispanic, and low BMI students. We also find some improvements in attendance for high achieving students but no impact on grades"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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Update	2012/3