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- Title
Take-up of Free School Meals: Price Effects and Peer Effects.
- Authors
Holford, Angus
- Abstract
29% of the 1.4 million eligible children do not participate in the UK's Free School Meals programme. Like other welfare benefits, take-up of free school meals is affected by stigma and lack of information. This paper uses a fixed-effect instrumental variables strategy to evaluate the role of peer-group participation in overcoming these barriers. Identification of endogenous peer effects is achieved by exploiting a scheme that extended free school meal entitlement to all children in some areas. Results show that a 10 percentage point rise in peer-group take-up reduces non-participation by 3.3-4.0 percentage points, or between 29% and 35%.
- Subjects
ADMINISTRATION of free schools; LUNCHEONS; OPEN plan schools; EXPERIMENTAL methods in education; PROGRESSIVE education
- Publication
Economica, 2015, Vol 82, Issue 328, p976
- ISSN
0013-0427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecca.12147