The effect of providing breakfast on student performance
Subtitle: evidence from an in-class breakfast program
By: Scott A. Imberman, Adriana D. Kugler
Contributors: Kugler, Adriana D.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17720; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17720.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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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