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ArticleNutrients2021

Universal Free Meals Associated with Lower Meal Costs While Maintaining Nutritional Quality.

Michael W Long, Keith Marple, Tatiana Andreyeva

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Article in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael W LongDepartment of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, 950 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3953-3424
Keith MarpleThe Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.
Tatiana AndreyevaRudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, 1 Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT 06103, USA.

Funding

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 allows the provision of universal free meals (UFMs) in high-poverty school areas. Participation in UFM programs, including through CEP, could reduce meal costs due to economies of scale and a lower administrative burden. We analyzed the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study (SNMCS) data from 508 UFM-eligible schools (103 UFMs) to evaluate whether meal costs varied by UFM status. We used school-level data to address the non-random selection to UFMs with inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW). We estimated a generalized linear model with a log link and gamma distribution to predict meal costs by UFM status and school size. Full costs among medium and large schools were marginally lower in UFM schools for lunch (-$0.673; 95% CI: -1.395, 0.0499;

Indexed as

MealsNutritive ValueSchoolsCosts and Cost AnalysisDiet, HealthyFood AssistanceFood ServicesHumansHungerLunchPovertyStudentschild nutritionfood services/legislation and jurisprudencemeal costsschools

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PMID33669614
PMCPMC7922198

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