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Appendix F: Changes in the WIC Food Packages and Program Participation
Pages 535-540

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From page 535...
... as well as the number of categorically and income-eligible individuals by state and year, with the eligibility calculations including adjustments for income eligibility or eligibility through participation in other programs as well as other adjustments made to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement data (USDA/FNS, 2015b)
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From page 536...
... Since categorically eligible individuals who participate in any of these programs are automatically eligible for WIC, there is possible concern that failing to control for effects of other programs might bias estimates of the effects of the initial rollout of the new food package. The committee therefore estimated a series of regressions with the unemployment rate and unemployment insurance recipiency per capita as well as SNAP and TANF caseloads per capita as controls in addition to state- and year-fixed effects (regression results and controls in Tables F-1 and F-2)
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From page 537...
... The latter is not the preferred approach because the period before implementation plus most of the period of partial implementation occurred in the middle of the Great Recession. The committee tried to adjust for this with various controls, but prefers the models with year-fixed effects.
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From page 538...
... 1.21a (0.536) Regression Controls Year-fixed effects N N N Y Y Y Y State-fixed effects N Y Y Y Y Y Y TANF cases per capita N N N N Y Y Y SNAP cases per capita N N N N Y Y Y Unemployment N N N N N Y Y insurance recipiency per capita Births per capita N N N N N N Y NOTES: SNAP = Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; TANF = Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
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From page 539...
... 0.801b (0.474) Regression Controls Year-fixed effects N N N N N N N State-fixed effects N Y Y Y Y Y Y TANF cases per N N N N Y Y Y capita SNAP cases per N N N N Y Y Y capita Unemployment N N N N N Y Y insurance recipiency per capita Births per capita N N N N N N Y NOTES: SNAP = Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; TANF = Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
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From page 540...
... 2016. Review of WIC food packages: Proposed framework for revisions: Interim report.
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