ArticleAmerican journal of health economics2020
DOES PRENATAL WIC PARTICIPATION IMPROVE CHILD OUTCOMES?
Article in American journal of health economics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Participation during Pregnancy: Racial/ethnic Inequities among Medicaid-Covered Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, and Hispanic Women.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Food delivery services for enhancing participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in the United States: bridging the WIC-eligible access gap.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Navigating Healthcare and Public Benefits in NC: Perspectives of Undocumented Latina Women with U.S.-Born Infants.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
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- Long-Run Impacts of an Early-life Nutrition Program: Evidence from the Introduction of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).Maternal and child health journal · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review to Identify Community- and Societal-Level Strategies Evaluated from 2013 to 2023 for Their Potential Impact on Child Well-Being in the United States.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Effect of Obesity and Pregnancy Weight Gain on Maternal and Child Health.Journal of obesity · 2024Article
- Consequences of the 2019 Public Charge Rule Announcement and Publication on Prenatal WIC Participation Among Immigrant Families: Evidence of Spillover Effects.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
- Understanding the Predictors of Low Take-Up of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): A Nationwide Longitudinal Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Impact of energy availability and physical activity on variation in fertility across human populations.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2023Review
- Risk factors for late (28+ weeks' gestation) stillbirth in the United States, 2014-2015.PloS one · 2023Article
- Variation in the infant health effects of the women, infants, and children program by predicted risk using novel machine learning methods.Health economics · 2023Article
- Inequities in Availability of Evidence-Based Birth Supports to Improve Perinatal Health for Socially Vulnerable Rural Residents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Experiences of Hispanic Families with Social Services in the Racially Segregated Southeast: Views from Administrators and Workers in North Carolina.Race and social problems · 2021Article
- Detecting the Effects of Early-Life Exposures: Why Fecundity Matters.Population research and policy review · 2019Article
- The Impact of the Revised WIC Food Package on Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy and Postpartum.American journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Feeding the Gap: Screening for Food Insecurity and Linking Families to WIC Support.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
A large body of literature documents positive effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth outcomes, and separately connects health at birth and future outcomes. But little research investigates the link between prenatal WIC participation and childhood outcomes. We explore this question using a unique data set from South Carolina that links administrative birth, Medicaid, and education records. We find that relative to their siblings, prenatal WIC participants have a lower incidence of ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and other common childhood mental health conditions and a lower incidence of grade repetition. These findings demonstrate that a "WIC start" results in persistent improvements in child outcomes across a range of domains.
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