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Title: Effects of Participation in Food Assistance Programs on Children's Health and Development: Evidence from NLSY Children
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori Duncan, Greg J. |
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Effects of Participation in Food Assistance Programs on Children's Health and Development: Evidence from NLSY Children Presented: Washington, DC, USDA/Institute for Research on Poverty Food Assistance Small Grants Conference, October 1999. Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Birthweight; Child Health; Hispanics; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Temperament; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study investigates the effects of WIC participation on birth weight, motor and social skills, and temperament for a national sample of children. Sibling fixed effect models are used to account for potential unmeasured heterogeneity among the mothers of children in this sample. Specifically, the sample contains children born between 1990 and 1996 to women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results from this study indicate that prenatal WIC participation has positive effects on infant birth weight using both OLS and fixed effect regression techniques. Fixed effect estimates also suggest that prenatal WIC participation is associated with lower scores on measures of difficult temperament. The data is drawn from the 1996 and earlier survey waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a nationally representative sample of men and women. The youth cohort were 14 to 21 years of age when interviewed in 1979, making them 31 to 38 in 1996. The original sample over represented black, Hispanic, and economically disadvantaged white youth. This cohort, of whom the mothers of the children we study are members, has been interviewed every year since 1979. Beginning in 1986, interviewers administered an extensive set of assessment instruments to the children of all the female respondents. These assessments include information about cognitive, socio-emotional, and psychological aspects of the child=s development as well as about the quality of the home environment (Baker et al, 1993). These same children were interviewed again in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, and in 1996. |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori and Greg J. Duncan. "Effects of Participation in Food Assistance Programs on Children's Health and Development: Evidence from NLSY Children." Presented: Washington, DC, USDA/Institute for Research on Poverty Food Assistance Small Grants Conference, October 1999. |