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000 offer more entrees 1 Consumer/Household Economics 1 Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety 1 NSLP administrators now face challenges of addressing both potential nutrient deficiencies and over-consumption. While the NSLP is a federally mandated program 1 Public Economics 1 The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was established in 1946 and has become one of the largest nutrition-assistance programs in the United States with over eighty percent of all primary and secondary schools participating. Partly in an effort to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity 1 and entrees served weekly) across income levels. I create a new dataset of 149 current school lunch menus collected from school websites. To analyze what types of schools may be more likely to serve more healthful foods as part of a school lunch 1 and state-level data from School Health Policies and Programs (SHPPS). I find weak evidence that school districts with median household income above $50 1 and vegetables than their lower-income counterparts. This information will help a growing field of economic studies examining the relationship between participation in the NSLP and childhood obesity. 1 and whole grains) made available to students while reducing the levels of sodium and saturated fats and controlling calorie levels. Thus 1 county-level income and educational attainment data from the American Community Survey (ACS) 1 fruits 1 highlighting variability in menu composition (e.g. 1 it is up to each school district to determine how the new guidelines will be met. This paper examines the determinants of the menu offerings of the NSLP 1 new guidelines effective beginning in the 2012/13 school year require more healthful foods (fruits 1 number of fruits 1 these data are combined with school- and district-level data from the Common Core Data (CCD) 1 vegetables 1
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Peckham, Janet G. 1
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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA 1
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2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 1
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What's For Lunch? Determinants of the NSLP Menu
Peckham, Janet G. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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