Costs, Reach, and Benefits of COVID-19 Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer and Grab-and-Go School Meals for Ensuring Youths’ Access to Food During School Closures
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.04.06.22273512: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources This population included both children who were eligible because their families had incomes ≤185% of FPL as well as children attending school districts that participated in the Community Eligibility Program (in which districts with large proportions of low income children offer free meals to all children regardless of income). Community Eligibility Programsuggested: NoneCost per meal delivered: Program costs: Grab-and-go meals: We followed standard guidelines for identifying, measuring, and valuing the resources required for program costs. Costsuggested: (COST, RRID:SCR_014098)Analyses … SciScore for 10.1101/2022.04.06.22273512: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources This population included both children who were eligible because their families had incomes ≤185% of FPL as well as children attending school districts that participated in the Community Eligibility Program (in which districts with large proportions of low income children offer free meals to all children regardless of income). Community Eligibility Programsuggested: NoneCost per meal delivered: Program costs: Grab-and-go meals: We followed standard guidelines for identifying, measuring, and valuing the resources required for program costs. Costsuggested: (COST, RRID:SCR_014098)Analyses were conducted using Microsoft Excel and StataMP 14. Microsoft Excelsuggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:However, our study has several limitations related to the available data sources. First, some states’ P-EBT administrative data did not separate distribution of P-EBT and SNAP benefits, which made it impossible to accurately estimate the number of unique P-EBT recipients and the benefits they received using a single data source for those states, making it necessary to triangulate several data sources. In some states, estimates of benefits provided by both P-EBT and grab-and-go meals exceeded the maximum permitted by USDA, leading us to cap estimated benefits distributed per person if they exceeded this threshold. High estimates may have resulted from the previously mentioned limitations of P-EBT data, errors in states’ reports of distributed grab-and-go meals, or errors in estimates of FRPM-eligible students. Census Pulse Household Survey data, which we used to estimate the number of children receiving grab-and-go school meals, assessed receipt at the household, not child, level. Finally, we were unable to locate a source of data for federal program administrative costs (i.e., at USDA). However, these costs were likely similar for the two programs and small compared to the larger cost contributions attributable to the benefits themselves and labor costs. Our study examined the start-up period of both programs. Additional analysis is needed to assess program reach when school closures are more inconsistent and whether costs might decrease once programs are mature and stabilize...
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