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Petter Lundborg. Photo.

Petter Lundborg

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Petter Lundborg. Photo.

The Effect of Nutritious School Lunches on Education, Health, and Life-Time Income

Author

  • Petter Lundborg
  • Dan Olof Rooth

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

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