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- Title
Impact of the community eligibility provision program on school meal participation in Texas.
- Authors
Schneider, Kate R; Oslund, Jennifer; Liu, Tiffany
- Abstract
Objective: To estimate the impact of opting into the community eligibility provision (CEP) on school meal participation among students in Texas. Design: A quasi-experimental design using a two-way fixed effects panel difference-in-difference model and the variation in adoption timing to estimate the impact of opting into CEP on student breakfast and lunch participation in eligible, ever-adopting schools. Setting: All public and charter K-12 schools in Texas participating in national school meals (breakfast and/or lunch) from 2013 to 2019 who are eligible for the CEP program in at least 1 year and choose to opt into the program in at least 1 year (n 2797 unique schools and 16 103 school-years). Participants: School-level administrative data from the Texas Department of Agriculture on meal counts, enrollment and summary characteristics of students merged with district-level educational and socio-demographic data from the Texas Education Authority. Results: We find opting into CEP increased school breakfast participation by 4·59 percentage points (P < 0·001) and lunch participation by 4·32 percentage points (P < 0·001), on average. The effect is slightly larger (4·64 and 4·61, respectively) and still statistically significant when excluding summer months. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that opting into CEP modestly increases school meal participation in Texas, with a similar impact on breakfast and lunch.
- Subjects
TEXAS; SCHOOL food; COMMUNITIES; LUNCHEONS; TEXAS. Dept. of Agriculture; BREAKFASTS; PARTICIPATION; CHARTER schools; STUDENT participation
- Publication
Public Health Nutrition, 2021, Vol 24, Issue 18, p6534
- ISSN
1368-9800
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1368980021003712