Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, High-Stakes Exam Performance, and College Attendance

Autor:	Jonathan Smith, Analisa Packham, Jillian B. Carr, Timothy N. Bond
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Consumption (economics) Receipt Transfer payment Food availability education Attendance Demographic economics College enrollment Academic achievement Psychology Test (assessment)
DOI:	10.3386/w28386
Popis:	Monthly government transfer programs create cycles of consumption that track the timing of benefit receipt. In this paper, we exploit state-level variation in the staggered timing of nutritional assistance benefit issuance across households to analyze how this monthly cyclicality in food availability affects academic achievement. Using individual-level score data from a large national college admissions exam in the United States linked to national college enrollment data, we find that taking this high-stakes exam in the last two weeks of the SNAP benefit cycle reduces test scores and lowers the probability of attending a 4-year college for low-income high school students.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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