Effects of WIC and Food Stamp Program participation on child outcomes

Lee, Bong Joo; Mackey-Bilaver, Lucy

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2006.10.005

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“…These results support other research that finds a protective effect of WIC on certain child outcomes (Black et al 2004;Carlson and Senauer 2003;Lee and Mackey-Bilaver 2007;Owen and Owen 1997). These findings deserve further discussion.…”

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“…Selection bias (Bitler, Currie, and Scholz 2003;Fox, Hamilton, and Lin 2004;Lee and Mackey-Bilaver 2007;Rose, Habicht, and Devaney 1998), and inappropriate comparisons with women and children not meeting income or other categorical requirements for WIC participation could misinterpret these associations. The unfortunate result would be to mislead policy discussions, because research on these topics has not been conducted with proper experimental designs, due to ethical or legal reasons (Rose, Habicht, and Devaney 1998).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The reason is that most data sources and traditional statistical methods do not adequately control for the possible economic and socio-demographic characteristics that might determine both WIC program participation and later child-health outcomes (Besharov and Germanis 2000;Lee and Mackey-Bilaver 2007). The current research aims to fill this gap by examining associations using both appropriate comparison groups and statistical methods applied to a nationally representative sample of children.…”

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confidence: 94%

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Childhood morbidities among income- and categorically-eligible WIC program participants and non-participants

Sparks

2010

Journal of Children and Poverty

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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is the largest supplemental food assistance program in the United States. WIC benefits include food and infant formula, nutrition counseling, health screenings, and health-care referrals to low-income, nutritionally at-risk pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five. This research explored the associations between childhood morbidities among income-and categorically-eligible WIC participant and non-participant groups in a diverse, nationally representative sample of children. Results indicate significant differences in the maternal sociodemographic profiles of eligible child WIC participants and non-participants. After propensity score-matching methods were used to create more appropriate comparison groups among child WIC participants and non-participants, complete covariate balance was obtained for all sociodemographic characteristics. Further, no significant differences in child asthma, respiratory illness, severe gastrointestinal illness, or ear infection diagnosis, or with mothers rating their health as poor, were noted between child WIC participants and non-participants, once the matched pairs were compared. Government regulators formulating future policies around WIC would benefit from understanding the characteristics of eligible non-participants in order to offer appropriate food, health, and educational assistance beneficial to child health.

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Childhood morbidities among income- and categorically-eligible WIC program participants and non-participants

Sparks

2010

Journal of Children and Poverty

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“…Receipt of WIC benefits improves child nutrition and decreases the birth of low-birth-weight infants (American Dietetic Association, 2006). Receiving either food stamps or WIC benefits lowers the risk of child health problems and of child maltreatment (Lee & Mackey-Bilaver, 2007). For children and persons with severe and persistent mental illness, receipt of public health insurance increases access to health and mental health services (Dick et al, 2004;Frank, Goldman, & Hogan, 2003).…”

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Teaching the Importance and Use of Web-Based Services to Assist Clients in Obtaining Public Benefits

Eamon

Moroney

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Journal of Teaching in Social Work

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“…Children-popularly known as WIC (Bitler & Currie, 2005;Figlio, Hamersma, & Roth, 2009;Hoynes, Page, & Stevens, 2011;Joyce, Racine, & Yunzal-Butler, 2008;Lee & Mackey-Bilaver, 2007;Ludwig & Miller, 2005), and those that pertain to the Children's Health Insurance Program [CHIP] (Baicker & Finkelstein, 2011;Howell & Kenney, 2012;Joyce & Racine, 2005;Levine & Schanzenbach, 2009;Lindrooth & McCullough, 2007;Yang & Gaydos, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment toward Economic Self-Sufficiency

Joseph¹

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All rights reserved.iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I hereby thank the members of my committee for their support, patience, and guidance, all of which were essential to achieving this work. I have been appreciative of their gentle but firm direction throughout the realization of the comprehensive papers, the dissertation proposal, and the dissertation itself. Dr. Barbara Thomlison contributed significantly to the development of this dissertation, mainly in terms of the research rationale, selection of relevant theories and critical analysis of the literature. Dr. Paul H.Stuart was instrumental in identifying poverty as a social problem and tracing the historical development of relevant U.S. social welfare policies put forth to address the problem. Dr. Chris Girard brought a critical perspective in the refinement of the theoretical perspectives, the hypotheses, and the methodology used in this project. although eligible for these benefits-did not receive them. Based on the premises of the theory of policy design and social construction, the culture of poverty theory, the racial classification model, and the social control thesis, the following two hypotheses were formulated: (1) Low-income households who receive one or more lower-tier federal means-tested benefits will be less likely to attain and maintain economic self-sufficiency vii than their counterparts who do not participate in federal welfare programs and (2) Lowincome households that enroll in more welfare programs will have worse self-sufficiency outcomes than their counterparts that participate in fewer programs. The survey respondents were measured repeatedly over a 56-month period to assess whether welfare receipt impacts their household income steadily beyond 150 percent of the federal poverty level, after controlling for known predictors. Findings from binomial logistic regression displayed medium effect sizes indicating that participation in public assistance did decrease the likelihood of attainment and maintenance of economic self-sufficiency among low-income American households. These findings were interpreted within the context of pre-existing differences that may have existed between the intervention group and the comparison group which were not accounted for in the multivariate analysis.

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Effects of WIC and Food Stamp Program participation on child outcomes

Cited by 79 publications

References 23 publications

Childhood morbidities among income- and categorically-eligible WIC program participants and non-participants

Childhood morbidities among income- and categorically-eligible WIC program participants and non-participants

Teaching the Importance and Use of Web-Based Services to Assist Clients in Obtaining Public Benefits

Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment toward Economic Self-Sufficiency

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