This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …

Large literatures document positive effects of WIC on birth outcomes, and separately connect health at birth and future … health conditions and of grade repetition. These findings demonstrate that a “WIC start” results in persistent improvements …

-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the … whether parental participation in such programs measurably benefits children. This paper begins to fill this gap in the … literature by examining the relationship between a mother's participation during pregnancy in Aid to Families with Dependent …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

with a reduction in the probability that the mother gained too little weight during pregnancy. Improvements tend to be … largest for first born children. We also find that women on WIC are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic conditions, and …

concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also … complicate the efforts of policy-makers in improving the human capital, health, and labor market outcomes of low-SES individuals …

was not due to increased health and welfare expenditures, but instead to improved governance. Treatment effects are … comparable to those of conventional child health interventions, though conventional programs are likely infeasible in this …

Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human … capital production function that summarizes available nutrition information. We find that although many youths suffer from …

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a …