School meals and quality of household food acquisitions

Rebecca Cleary (), Alessandro Bonanno, Armen Ghazaryan, Laura Bellows and Morgan McCloskey

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021, vol. 43, issue 4, 1385-1442

Abstract: School meals provide nourishment to a large portion of US schoolchildren. Research has examined the relationship between the consumption of school meals and the quality of schoolchildren's diets, with little emphasis on studying spillovers at the household level. Using National Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey data and unconditional quantile regression, we study the relationship between a household's quality of food‐at‐home acquisitions and the number of school meals acquired, subsampling households by their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation status. We do not find strong evidence supporting beneficial spillovers of school meals on a household's quality of food‐at‐home acquisitions. JEL CLASSIFICATION C31; D12; I14; Q18

Date: 2021
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