Sentences with phrase «lunch program variable»
If the «resources in the home» variable is a reliable proxy for family income data, as the authors claim, then why use the flawed federal lunch program variable at all?
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It depends on too many variables, most of which are not fully within the control of the person running the meal program — getting more paying kids to buy the school lunch, keeping volatile food costs under control (remember the spike of 2008?
For a final check, we added controls for a full set of cohort - level variables, including race, gender, participation in the federal subsidized lunch program, and median zip code income.
Our data included each student's answers on each year's test; which school and classroom each student was in; each student's previous and future test scores; and demographic variables including each student's age, sex, race, and eligibility for the federal school lunch program, a widely used proxy for family income.
The analysis also took into account students» age, gender, eligibility for the free lunch program, and whether they had been assigned to a small class, as well as variables measuring the demographic composition of the student's class.