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| Title: | | Take-up of Free School Meals: Price effects and peer effects  |
| Authors: | | Holford, Angus |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ISER Working Paper Series 2012-12 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | school meals peer effects welfare stigma aggregated data |
| JEL: | | H75 I28 I38 Z13 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex
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