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This version was published on June 1, 2008
Evaluation Review, Vol. 32, No. 3, 273-297 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X07309689

Tightening Income Documentation in a Means-Tested Program

Who Stays Away?

Philip Gleason

Mathematica Policy Research

John Burghardt

Mathematica Policy Research

Paul Strasberg

Institute for Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education

Lara Hulsey

Mathematica Policy Research

Programs using means tests to identify low-income households face a trade-off between promoting access and ensuring program integrity. The authors use a comparison-district design to estimate the effects of a pilot program to improve the accuracy of the process of certifying students for free or reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program. This pilot program required households to provide income documentation with their applications for these benefits. Requiring income documentation did not reduce the proportion of ineligible households getting free or reduced-price meals. Furthermore, this requirement did reduce access to the program among eligible households.

Key Words: school lunch • free or reduced-price meals • income documentation • program integrity


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