Nerea Gómez, researcher of the Regional Taxation Chair, has recently published an article together with Juan Francisco Albert in “Revista de Educación” about the relation between breakfast and academic performance.

The article, that uses data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of 2015, includes the results in different subjects of 15-year-old students from different countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Analysing the relation between the benefits of having breakfast and the achievement of a greater academic performance, the study results prove that those students who have breakfast before going to class obtain higher scores in subjects such as Maths and Sciences. 

At the end, in the study, the development of policies for encouraging students to have breakfast is recommended. Some examples of this policies could be school breakfasts programmes or awareness campaigns in social media.

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