stages. These findings are useful for WIC nutritionists and health care practitioners to encourage the early development of …

. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides steadily available food from the … food groups essential for physical and cognitive development. The effects of WIC on dietary quality among participating …—I examine how prenatal and early childhood exposure to WIC is associated in the short-term with cognitive development, and in …

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and all three compete for non-WIC customers at grocery stores. Previous studies … explained the low WIC prices and the higher retail prices as the result of price discrimination. We propose an alternative … spillover model. Grocery stores, which supply both WIC participants and others, provide relatively large amounts of shelf space …

The WIC program offers supplemental foods to low-income women, infants, and children. This study compared consumption … patterns of WIC children with those of three different comparison groups: eligible nonparticipating children living in non-WIC … households, eligible nonparticipating children living in WIC households, and children living in households whose income is too …