, Infants, and Children (WIC), the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the School Breakfast Program—accounted for 95 percent …

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 …

Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Typically, WIC State agencies obtain substantial discounts in the form of … rebates from infant formula manufacturers for each can of formula purchased through the program. The cost to WIC for each can … wholesale price. This analysis suggests that retail markup accounts for most of the cost to WIC of infant formula in most States …

geographic access to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). My empirical approach … uses within-ZIP-code variation in WIC clinic presence together with maternal fixed effects, and accounts for the potential … endogeneity of mobility, gestational-age bias, and measurement error in gestation. I find that access to WIC increases food …

Although the WIC food assistance program purchases over one-half of all US infant formula, I find the program has … little impact on the prices paid by non-WIC customers. I estimate infant-formula marginal cost and find that it is low … compared to price, implying large price-cost markups. But, the WIC program is not to blame. Instead large price-cost markups …

USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides nutritious foods … 5. Despite the health benefits of WIC participation, many eligible women do not participate during pregnancy, and many … households exit WIC when a participating child turns 1 year old. The authors of this report use the first two waves of the Early …