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Title: Effects of Participation in the WIC Food Assistance Program 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 the WIC Food Assistance Program on Children's Health and Development: Evidence from NLSY Children Discussion Paper No. 1207-00, Institute for Research on Poverty, 2000. Also: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/dps/pdfs/dp120700.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison Keyword(s): Birthweight; Child Health; Children, Health Care; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Pre/post Natal Behavior; Siblings; Temperament Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study investigates the effects of maternal participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth weight, motor and social skills, and temperament for a national sample of children born between 1990 and 1996 to women participating in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Sibling fixed effect models are used to account for persistent differences in difficult to measure characteristics of mothers that affect participation in the program. Results indicate that prenatal WIC participation has positive effects on infant birth weight. Fixed effect, but not OLS, estimates suggest that prenatal WIC participation is associated with more positive child temperament. |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori and Greg J. Duncan. "Effects of Participation in the WIC Food Assistance Program on Children's Health and Development: Evidence from NLSY Children." Discussion Paper No. 1207-00, Institute for Research on Poverty, 2000. |