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School Lunch Program Participation
Author(s) -
ZUCCHINO LORI,
RANNEY CHRISTINE K.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1990.tb00268.x
Subject(s) - legislature , state (computer science) , demographic economics , economic growth , psychology , political science , economics , gerontology , medicine , computer science , law , algorithm
Participation in the school lunch program declined nationwide and in New York State between 1979 and 1981. A two‐stage model of county‐level program participation in New York is developed and implemented to isolate the legislative effects of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Acts of 1980 and 1981 (OBRA) from demographic and economic effects. Simulation results suggest that OBRA increased program participation; declining enrollments were the major factor in the reduction of overall participation.