@techreport{Holford2012Take,
abstract = {Almost 300,000 entitled children do not participate in the UK's Free School Meals (FSM) programme, worth up to \textsterling{}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.},
address = {Colchester},
author = {Angus Holford},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {H75; I28; I38; Z13; 330; school meals; peer effects; welfare stigma; aggregated data},
language = {eng},
number = {2012-12},
publisher = {ISER},
title = {Take-up of Free School Meals: Price effects and peer effects},
type = {ISER Working Paper Series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/65989},
year = {2012}
}
