Free-School-Lunch Policies: Impact Evaluation on Student BMI and Mental Health
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Keywords
free lunch policies; difference in differences design; student health;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2021-12-20 (Education)
- NEP-URE-2021-12-20 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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