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Children’s Food Security and Participation in the National School Lunch Program

Applied Economics and Finance

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Title Children’s Food Security and Participation in the National School Lunch Program
 
Creator Ishdorj, Ariun; Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Higgins, Lindsey; Department of Agribusiness, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
 
Description In 2013 nearly 8.6 million U.S. children lived in households in which one or more child was food insecure. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is one of the largest federally funded food and nutrition assistance programs that aims to provide nutritious, well-balanced lunches for school-age children. Given the important role this program plays on food and nutrient intake of school-age children, we examined the relationship between participation in NSLP and children’s food security status. After controlling for the endogeneity of program participation we found that program participation have positive effect on food insecure and marginally food secure children, but the effect was not significant. Having enough time to eat school meals played an important role on students’ decision to participate in NSLP. We also found that marginal food security group shared more characteristics with the food insecure group rather than with the high food secure group.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
Date 2015-01-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Peer-reviewed Article
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Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/655
10.11114/aef.v2i1.655
 
Source Applied Economics and Finance; Vol 2, No 1 (2015); 119-128
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/655/596
 
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