Take-up of Free School Meals: Price effects and peer effects

Arbeitspapier

Almost 300,000 entitled children do not participate in the UK's Free School Meals (FSM) programme, worth up to £400 per year. Welfare take-up can be stigma and lack of information. This paper uses a school-level dataset and fixed-effect instrumental variables strategy to show that peer-group participation has a substantial role in overcoming these barriers. Identification of endogenous peer effects is achieved by exploiting a scheme which extended FSM entitlement to all children in some school cohorts. Results show that in a typical school a 10 percentage point rise in peer-group take-up would reduce non-participation by almost a quarter.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2012-12

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions ; Education: Government Policy ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: school meals ; peer effects ; welfare stigma ; aggregated data

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Holford, Angus
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (wo): Colchester
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/65989
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ