Cristin-resultat-ID: 1631569
Sist endret: 10. februar 2020, 13:23
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2018
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018

Childhood nutrition and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a school breakfast program.

Bidragsytere:
  • Aline Buetikofer
  • Eirin Mølland og
  • Kjell Gunnar Salvanes

Tidsskrift

Journal of Public Economics
ISSN 0047-2727
e-ISSN 1879-2316
NVI-nivå 2

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2018
Volum: 168
Sider: 62 - 80

Importkilder

Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85055493242

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Tittel

Childhood nutrition and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a school breakfast program.

Sammendrag

While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food, there is scarce evidence of the long-term effects of such programs. This paper studies the long-term and intergenerational consequences of access to nutritious food using the rollout of a free school breakfast program in Norwegian cities. This program provided children with nutritious food and replaced a hot school meal at the end of the day with similar caloric value but less micronutrients. Our results indicate that access to a nutritious school breakfast increases education by 0.1 years and earnings by 2–3%. In addition, we present empirical evidence that early exposure is most beneficial, that a longer treatment duration does not yield higher returns, and that the positive effects on men's earnings are transmitted across generations. Our results are mostly robust to adding municipality-specific time trends, event-study models support the validity of the research design, and most estimated effects survive adjustment for multiple hypothesis testing.

Bidragsytere

Aline Bütikofer

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Aline Buetikofer
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi ved Norges Handelshøyskole

Eirin Mølland

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved NORCE Helse og samfunn ved NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

Kjell Gunnar Salvanes

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi ved Norges Handelshøyskole
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