The Effect of Breakfast in the Classroom on Obesity and Academic Performance: Evidence from New York City.
The Effect of Breakfast in the Classroom on Obesity and Academic Performance: Evidence from New York City.
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10.1002/pam.21909
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2016
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Schwartz AE
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作者：
Corcoran SP;Elbel B;Schwartz AE
参加联邦政府补贴的学校早餐计划的人数往往福尔斯远低于午餐时间的人数。为了提高学生的接受率，许多学区实施了教室早餐（BIC），在开学时直接向学生提供早餐。除了提高参与度，倡导者声称BIC提高了学习成绩，出勤率和参与度。其他人警告说，BIC对儿童体重有有害影响。我们使用BIC在纽约市（NYC）的实施，以估计其对膳食计划参与，身体质量指数（BMI），成就和出勤率的影响。虽然我们发现参与的影响很大，但我们的研究结果并没有提供任何证据表明希望在学习成绩上有所提高，或者担心肥胖的增加。BIC的政策案例将取决于贫困儿童饥饿和粮食不安全的减少，或其长期影响。
Participation in the federally subsidized school breakfast program often falls well below its lunchtime counterpart. To increase take-up, many districts have implemented Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC), offering breakfast directly to students at the start of the school day. Beyond increasing participation, advocates claim BIC improves academic performance, attendance, and engagement. Others caution BIC has deleterious effects on child weight. We use the implementation of BIC in New York City (NYC) to estimate its impact on meals program participation, body mass index (BMI), achievement, and attendance. While we find large effects on participation, our findings provide no evidence of hoped-for gains in academic performance, or of feared increases in obesity. The policy case for BIC will depend upon reductions in hunger and food insecurity for disadvantaged children, or its longer-term effects.