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dc.contributor.author | Holford, Angus | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-23 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-06T14:54:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-06T14:54:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/65989 | - |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aUniversity of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) |cColchester | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aISER Working Paper Series |x2012-12 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H75 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I28 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I38 | en |
dc.subject.jel | Z13 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | school meals | en |
dc.subject.keyword | peer effects | en |
dc.subject.keyword | welfare stigma | en |
dc.subject.keyword | aggregated data | en |
dc.title | Take-up of Free School Meals: Price effects and peer effects | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 719923603 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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