Mothers as insurance: Family spillovers in WIC.
WIC, spillovers, child nutrition and health, maternal responses
Journal
Journal of health economics
ISSN: 1879-1646
Titre abrégé: J Health Econ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8410622
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2023
09 2023
Historique:
received:
02
12
2022
revised:
31
05
2023
accepted:
25
06
2023
medline:
18
9
2023
pubmed:
24
7
2023
entrez:
23
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on older children and their families is limited. We use a regression discontinuity leveraging a loss of benefits at age five when children become ineligible for WIC and examine nutritional and laboratory outcomes for adults and children. We find little impact on children who aged out of the program. But caloric intake falls and food insecurity increases among adult women, suggesting that mothers protect children by consuming less themselves. We find no effect on others in the household.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37481945
pii: S0167-6296(23)00061-9
doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102784
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Pagination
102784Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest None.