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| DOI | 10.1086/723824 | ||||
| Año | 2023 | ||||
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Childhood obesity is one of the major public health challenges of the 21st century. Randomized interventions have shown promising evidence of long-term effects from nutrition services on children's health. However, it is yet unclear whether scaled-up programs, such as school meals, prevent children's obesity risk. I implement a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach on national administrative data to estimate the short- and medium-run effects of the Chilean school meal program (SMP) on children's body mass index (BMI) z-scores. Girls' eligibility in first grade reduces local average obesity prevalence by 4 percentage points. Continued eligibility reduces boys' local average obesity prevalence in fifth grade by .10 percentage points. Effects concentrate among children with high BMI z-scores and are partly driven by improvements in the nutritional quality of meals. Children attending schools providing psychosocial support exhibit larger benefits from SMP eligibility, consistent with spillover effects from the integration of stimulation and nutrition interventions.
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| 1 | Carlos Caro, Juan | - |
Universidad de Concepción - Chile
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| This work was partially funded by ANID through grant PAI/INDUSTRIA 79090016. |
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| This paper was conducted under a collaboration between the Chilean National Board of School Aid and Scholarships (JUNAEB, Spanish acronym) and the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology at the University of Chile. I thank Camila Corvalan, Eduardo Candia, and Mariana Lira for the initial support on this project. My gratitude extends to Sean Sylvia, Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman, and many colleagues at the SECHI annual meeting, the Triangle Health Economics Workshop at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Southern Economic Association annual meeting. The contents and opinions in this article are solely the personal views of the author. I affirm that all remaining errors are our own.r This work was partially funded by ANID through grant PAI/INDUSTRIA 79090016. |
| This work was partially funded by ANID through grant PAI/INDUSTRIA 79090016. |