National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to include stricter nutritional requirements. We use data on school lunch menus to … document improvements in the nutritional quality of school meals between 1991 and 2010. We then evaluate how this change in … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …

We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a … food insecurity for previously eligible low-income families, suggesting that the stigma of free school meals may be …