Petter Lundborg
Professor
The Effect of Nutritious School Lunches on Education, Health, and Life-Time Income
Author
Summary, in English
In this article we present the long-run gains of adopting a nutritious school meal program for Swedish children. During the 1960s, Sweden rolled out a universal program that provided nutritious school lunches free of charge to all children in Swedish primary schools. Our results show that the school lunch program generated substantial long-term benefits, where pupils exposed to the program during their entire primary school period have 3 percent greater life-time earnings. This effect was greater for pupils from poor households, suggesting that the program reduced socioeconomic inequalities in adulthood. Exposure to the school lunch program also had substantial effects on educational attainment and health
Department/s
- Centre for Economic Demography
- Department of Economics
Publishing year
2022-01
Language
English
Pages
52-56
Publication/Series
CESifo Forum
Volume
23
Issue
1
Links
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Ifo institute for Economic Research e.V.
Topic
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
- Economics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1615-245X