Volume 26, Number 4 (Fall) 1991
Long, Sharon K. 1991. "Do the School Nutrition Programs Supplement Household Food Expenditures?" Journal of Human Resources 26(4):654-678.
The extent to which the school nutrition programs - the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) - supplement household food expenditures is an important indication of whether the objectives of the programs are being met. Using data from the National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs and a bivariate selection model, this paper obtains estimates of such supplementation. I find that somewhat less than one-half of each additional dollar of NSLP benefits is used by households to supplement food expenditures, while all of each additional dollar of SBP benefits is allocated to such expenditures.
The author is a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute. This research was funded by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture under contract 53-3198-7-84. Any opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not of the Food and Nutrition Service. The author gratefully acknowledges the comments of Barbara Devaney, Tom Fraker, Marty Forchheimer, and the referees. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning March 1992 through March 1995 from the author at the following address: The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037.
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