NESNP

This paper uses data from the 1980-81 National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs (NESNP) to examine the impact of the NSLP and SBP on household food expenditures, controlling for possible selection bias that may arise because of unmeasured differences between program participants and nonparticipants in their preferences for food.

More recently, the 1977-1978 National Food Consumption Survey and the National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs (NESNP) have been utilized for analyses of program participation and nutrient intake (Akin, Guilkey, and Popkin 1983; Akin et al.