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Author: Dhawan, Simi
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1. Chatterji, Pinka
Bonuck, Karen
Dhawan, Simi
Deb, Nandini
WIC Participation and the Initiation and Duration of Breastfeeding
Discussion Paper No. 1246-02, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison, February 2002.
Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/pubs/dp124602.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison
Keyword(s): Breastfeeding; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Poverty; Welfare

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The objective of this paper is to measure the effect of participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) after the birth of a child on one important health behavior, the initiation and persistence of breastfeeding. The study is based on linked data on mothers and children from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Baseline, two-stage least squares, and fixed-effects model estimates show a negative effect of WIC participation on some forms of breastfeeding. The findings demonstrate that the WIC program faces a difficult challenge in encouraging low-income mothers to breastfeed while also providing needed infant formula to formula-fed infants.
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Chatterji, Pinka, Karen Bonuck, Simi Dhawan and Nandini Deb. "WIC Participation and the Initiation and Duration of Breastfeeding." Discussion Paper No. 1246-02, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison, February 2002.