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OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth outcomes. DATA SOURCE:The Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID provides extensive data on the income and well-being of a representative sample of U.S. families from 1968 to present. The CDS collects information on the children in PSID families ranging from cognitive, behavioral, and health status to their family and neighborhood environment. The first two waves of the CDS were conducted in 1997 and 2002, respectively. We use information on 3,181 children and their mothers. STUDY DESIGN:We use propensity score matching with multiple imputations to examine whether WIC program influences birth outcomes: birth weight, prematurity, maternal report of the infant's health, small for gestational age, and placement in the neonatal intensive care unit. Furthermore, we use a fixed-effects model to examine the above outcomes controlling for mother-specific unobservables. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:After using propensity scores to adjust for confounding factors, WIC shows no statistically significant effects for any of six outcomes. Fixed-effects models, however, reveal some effects that are statistically significant and fairly substantial in size. These involve preterm birth and birth weight. CONCLUSIONS:Overall, the WIC program had moderate effects, but findings were sensitive to the estimation method used.
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Health Serv Resjournal_title
Health services researchauthors
Foster EM,Jiang M,Gibson-Davis CMdoi
10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01115.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-08-01 00:00:00pages
1083-104issue
4eissn
0017-9124issn
1475-6773pii
HESR1115journal_volume
45pub_type
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doi：10.1111/1475-6773.12041
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journal_title：Health services research
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更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Limited information exists concerning lifetime use of nursing home services by the aged. This article examines the longitudinal experience, over four years, of elderly individuals at high risk of institutionalization, and develops a simple model of nursing home use based on these observations. This model allows us to ...
journal_title：Health services research
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1111/1475-6773.12023
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journal_title：Health services research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01160.x
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doi：
更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00439.x
更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00879.x
更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1111/1475-6773.12866
更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1111/1475-6773.12296
更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Health services research
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doi：10.1111/1475-6773.12318
更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Health services research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether physicians attend to gender prevalence data in diagnostic decision making for coronary heart disease (CHD) and to test the hypothesis that previously reported gender differences in CHD diagnostic certainty are due to discrimination arising from reliance on prevalence data ("statistical disc...
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pub_type： 评论,杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01022.x
更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Health services research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to determine whether women who have been diagnosed with HIV utilize the same volume of medical care services as men who have been diagnosed with HIV. DATA SOURCES:This study uses data from the first wave of interviews of the AIDS Cost and Service Utilization Survey (ACSUS) conduc...
journal_title：Health services research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Health services research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Health services research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00
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doi：
更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00311.x
更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00
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