Student Eligibility for a Free Lunch as an SES Measure in Education Research

By Michael R. Harwell, Brandon LeBeau. 2010

339 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, General Health Professions

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In Education

1. Ann Owens
2. K. Shogren
3. Ilana M. Umansky
4. Christopher Jencks
5. A. Lein
6. Michael R. Harwell
7. Stephen Gorard
8. Quentin Brummet

In General Health Professions

1. Stephen Gorard
2. Ilana M. Umansky
3. Michael R. Harwell
4. M. Wehmeyer
5. Sean F. Reardon
6. K. Shogren
7. Ann Owens

Citations in the corpus

• Exploring the Effect of Disability, Race-Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status on Scores on the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report (2018, background): “Although there are limitations to using free and reduced price lunch status as a proxy for socioeconomic status (Harwell & LeBeau, 2010; National Forum on Education Statistics, 2015), the inclusion of this variable expands on existing research, which has rarely explored the impact of environmental…”
• Who Is Eligible for Free School Meals? Characterising Free School Meals as a Measure of Disadvantage in England. (2012, background): “However, the official procedures for entitlement to a free meal and for registering and then taking that meal have also traditionally offered social science researchers a useful, wide-ranging and pre-existing indicator of potential pupil disadvantage (Harwell & LeBeau, 2010).”
• Is Free and Reduced-Price Lunch a Valid Measure of Educational Disadvantage? (2018, methodology): “Furthermore, verification studies suggest that family income reports may be inaccurate (Bass, 2010).1 Indeed, Harwell and LeBeau (2010) compile evidence from multiple verification studies conducted between 1990 and 2005 suggesting that a considerable proportion of students who enroll in free or…”
• Income Segregation Between Schools and School Districts (2016, background): “A second limitation of the CCD data is that reported FLE counts are an imperfect proxy for true student eligibility counts (Harwell & LeBeau, 2010).”
• Leveled and Exclusionary Tracking (2016, background): “This variable is both problematic as a proxy for socioeconomic status (Harwell & LeBeau, 2010) and unavailable because the district considers it to be private, non-shareable data under federal law.”
• Effectiveness of mathematical word problem solving interventions for students with learning disabilities and/or mathematics difficulties: A meta-analysis. (2016, background): “Although there are multiple possible measures of the multifaceted construct of socio-economic status (SES) (Dalton, 53 2011; Harwell & LeBeau 2010), eligibility for Free or Reduced Price Lunch (FRL) was the only estimate of SES reported in a subsample of the reviewed studies.”