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The effect of WIC on breastfeeding: a new look at an established relationship. |
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Children and Youth Services Review, 32(2), February 2010, pp.264-273. |
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0190-7409 |
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Although the Special Supplemental Nutrition Programme for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has been credited with increasing birth weights and improving child health, the programme has been criticised for reducing breastfeeding through the provision of free formula. As compared to non-participants, WIC mothers are one-half less likely to initiate breastfeeding and twice as likely as stop breastfeeding by 6 months. Yet WIC recipients are socio-economically disadvantaged as compared to non-participants. As a result, whether lower breastfeeding rates reflect the effect of the programme or the types of women who participate is unknown. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Child Development Supplement (PSID-CDS), this study used propensity scores and fixed-effects estimation to determine the effect of WIC on breastfeeding initiation and duration. The study used information on 3276 children and their mothers. The results find no evidence that WIC as a programme decreases breastfeeding and that the negative association is likely spurious arising from the poor socio-demographic profile of participants. |
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babies; low income; mothers; nutrition; socioeconomic groups; statistical methods; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=6ce44e8c-2a52-4b84-a484-f4e6b14a2ab9 |
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