Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.coverage.countryChina
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CN
cg.coverage.regionEastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierManuel Hernandez: 0000-0003-4754-8471
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2023.101974en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Food and Nutrition Policy
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1043-951Xen
cg.issueJune 2023en
cg.journalChina Economic Reviewen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume79en
dc.contributor.authorWang, Jingxien
dc.contributor.authorHernandez, Manuel A.en
dc.contributor.authorDeng, Guoyingen
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T12:09:04Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-14T12:09:04Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140196
dc.titleLarge-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural Chinaen
dcterms.abstractReducing urban-rural gaps in child health is one of the most difficult challenges faced by many countries. This paper evaluates the impact of a large-scale school meal program in rural China on the health and nutritional status of students aged 6–16 in compulsory education. We use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey corresponding to four pre-treatment years (2004, 2006, 2009, and 2011) and one post-treatment year (2015) and find that program participation is, on average, associated with a higher child height-for-age. The impacts are larger among students in a better health condition but small or not significant among the most disadvantaged. We do not observe heterogeneous effects across several individual and household characteristics. We also find positive but not significant effects on Body Mass Index-for-age and weight-for-age. The results suggest that NIP partially improved students' health over the first years of implementation, but more support is needed to achieve broader impacts that effectively reach all vulnerable students.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWang, Jingxi; Hernandez, Manuel A.; and Deng, Guoying. 2023. Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China. China Economic Review 79(June 2023): 101974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2023.101974en
dcterms.issued2023-06-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac060.065en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.3.1019-10515R1en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2022.111850en
dcterms.relationhttps://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/human-development/the-power-of-school-feeding-programmes-to-improve-nutrition.htmlen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134319en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8656en
dcterms.subjectdata analysisen
dcterms.subjectdataen
dcterms.subjectbody mass indexen
dcterms.subjectimplementationen
dcterms.subjectschool feedingen
dcterms.subjectchild healthen
dcterms.subjectsocial protectionen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectrural areasen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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