The effect of providing breakfast on student performance : evidence from an In-Class Breakfast program Scott.A. Imberman, Adrian D.Kluger NBER Working Paper ; January 2012 In response to low take-up, many schools have experimented with moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom. The authors examine whether such a program increases performance as measured by standardized test scores, grades and attendance rates. They exploit quasi-random timing of program implementation that allows for a difference-in-differences identification strategy. Their main identification assumption is that schools where the program was introduced earlier would have evolved similarly to those where the program was introduced later. They find that providing breakfast in-class relative to the cafeteria raises both math and reading achievement by about one-tenth of a standard deviation. Moreover, they find that these effects are most pronounced for low performing, free-lunch eligible, Hispanic, and low BMI students. aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/imberman%20kugler%202012.pdf
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