What’s on the menu? A review of school meal quality across 29 countries
This study evaluates global school meal quality through nutrient composition analyses and the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS)-Meal and -Menu metrics.
Gelli, Aulo
School meals in the 21st century: key evidence gaps and future directions
School meal programs are a widely implemented safety net with documented impacts across social protection, education, health and nutrition and high estimated returns to investment (Alderman et al., 2024).
Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: a new method with an application to school meals
Poverty reduction and nutrition are often joint outcomes of many public policies and programs which have education as their primary outcome. Quantification of overall benefits for these programs in a common metric is challenging.
School Meals Are Evolving: Has the Evidence Kept Up?
School meal programs are popular social programs. They are provided to 61 percent of primary students in high-income countries but to a smaller share of students in less wealthy countries.
Food for thought? Experimental evidence on the learning impacts of a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana
There is limited experimental evidence of the impact of large-scale, government-led school meals programs on educational achievements. The authors report results from a nationwide randomized trial of the Government of Ghana’s school feeding program.
School feeding and girls’ enrollment: the effects of alternative implementation modalities in low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: School feeding interventions are implemented in nearly every country in the world, with the potential to support the education, health and nutrition of school children.
Costs, and cost-outcome of school feeding programmes and feeding programmes for young children. Evidence and recommendations
Our objectives for this study were to provide updated, realistic data on the costs and cost-outcomes of school feeding in Low and Middle Income Countries. We also aimed to identify factors that may influence effectiveness and therefore, cost effectiveness of the interventions.
Sensitive to nutrition? A literature review of school feeding effects in the child development lifecycle
The purpose of this paper is to provide an up-to-date literature review on school feeding and the potential impact on nutrition, including school age children, pre-school and adolescent girls.