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Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, High-Stakes Exam Performance, and College Attendance / Timothy N. Bond, Jillian B. Carr, Analisa Packham, Jonathan Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bond, Timothy N.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28386.
- NBER working paper series no. w28386
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2021.
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