Food insecurity in the United States: measurement, economic modeling, and food assistance effectiveness

TA Smith, CA Gregory - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We first discuss the genesis and development of the Food Security Module in the United
States. We then present a conceptual model of food insecurity, drawing on consumer choice …

Aging out of WIC and child nutrition: evidence from a regression discontinuity design

TA Smith, P Valizadeh - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC) is the third largest food assistance program in the United States. Child participants …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of lump-sum food benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic on spending, hardship, and health

L Bauer, K Ruffini, DW Schanzenbach - Journal of Public Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines how providing families with lump-sum in-kind assistance during the
pandemic affected food hardship, economic well-being, and maternal health. We study the …

New Evidence on the Cycle in the Women, Infants, and Children Program: What Happens When Benefits Expire

M Bitler, J Cook, S Oh, P Rowberry - National Tax Journal, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We provide evidence of a benefit redemption cycle in the Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Using novel administrative data on item …

[PDF][PDF] The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes

J Hicks, G Simard-Duplain, DA Green, W Warburton - 2023 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and
2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax …

The Academic Effects of United States Child Food Assistance Programs—At Home, School, and In-Between

MD Kurtz, KS Conway, RD Mohr - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2022 - oxfordre.com
The primary goals of food assistance programs are to alleviate child hunger and reduce food
insecurity; if successful, such programs may have the added benefit of improving child …

[PDF][PDF] Childbirth and Welfare Inequality: The Role of Bargaining Power and Intrahousehold Allocation

N Guo, A **e - 2024 - aeaweb.org
This paper investigates the impact of childbirth on wives' bargaining power and welfare by
analyzing labor market responses and adjustments in intrahousehold resource allocation …

[PDF][PDF] Mothers Experience Greater Food Insecurity When Children Age Out of WIC

M Bitler, J Currie, HW Hoynes, KJ Ruffini, L Schulkind… - children, 2023 - poverty.ucdavis.edu
Our data on consumption and health outcomes came from the NHANES III, conducted from
1988 through 1994, and from the continuous NHANES, conducted from 1999 and 2014 …

[PDF][PDF] The Impact of Electronic Benefit Transfer on WIC Participation: Evidence from Natality Data

C Ambrozek, T Beatty, W Zhan - … July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, 2024 - wenjie-zhan.github.io
Policymakers have an interest in ensuring participation in the Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)–WIC has been shown to increase …

Three Essays on Childhood Obesity Based on the Arkansas Childhood Body Mass Index Panel

A Lazic - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Rates of childhood obesity, defined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's
reference growth charts as children≥ 95 th percentile according to their age and sex …