Abstract The China Student Nutrition Improvement Plan (SNIP) covers 40.6 million students
in the compulsory education stage, accounting for 42% of all students enrolled in rural …

While considerable attention has been paid to the benefits of school nutritious feeding, little
literature focused on the effect on human capital accumulation for students in poverty. By …

Child malnutrition remains a major public health concern, especially in many developing
countries. This paper examines the long-term effects of a school meal program on …

The health and education consequences of school feeding programs have been well
established, however, evidence regarding such programs' spillover effects on children's …

Education and child health are important tools of poverty reduction and economic
development. With the recent focus on universal primary education as a Millennium …

Reducing urban-rural gaps in child health is one of the most difficult challenges faced by
many countries. This paper evaluates the impact of a large-scale school meal program in …

This study evaluated the nutrition improvement program (NIP) in China. A difference-in-
differences model with propensity score matching was employed to diagnose the explicit …

This study examines the impacts of childhood exposure to the Nutrition Improvement
Program (NIP), which provides free school meals to eligible students in rural China, on adult …

We examine the relationship between children's participation in the Nutrition Improvement
Programme (NIP) and household education expenditure on students under compulsory …

Importance The White House National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health included
expanding free school meals to all students, regardless of income, which has sparked …