This paper examines the relationship between the timing of SNAP benefit payments and participation in school lunch and … participation over the five-day window before and after the SNAP payment. We find that school lunch participation decreases 17 to 23 … SNAP month using individual fixed effects yield similar findings. Among teenagers, participation in school lunch and …

the program improves the quality of food consumed. Finally, in households with school-aged children, both preschool … children and adults have healthier diets and consume less fat when the SBP is available. These results suggest that school … the school breakfast program (SBP). Our work builds on previous research in four ways: First, we develop a transparent …

-of-kindergarten inequality than classroom quality. Higher quality classrooms and home investments have a larger effect on children entering …

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school … settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote … investigated the frequency and consequences of disruptions to children’s child care and school arrangements during fall 2020. The …

We find access to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact … on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For … school meals may be declining after universal access …

SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program), WIC, and the school breakfast and lunch programs. Building on Currie's (2003 …

This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically …

, focusing on the use of suspensions. We use school discipline measures from the Civil Rights Data Collection and rely on the … timing of pilot implementation of CEP across states to assess how disciplinary infractions evolve within a school as it … adopts CEP. We find modest reductions in suspension rates among elementary and middle but not high school students. While we …