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- catalog abstract ""Rethinking WIC is an analysis of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, WIC is a $5 billion per year program and serves about 7.3 million women and children. WIC provides vouchers to low-income families to purchase specific high-nutrition food packages to supplement diets, nutritional and health counseling, and referrals to health care and social service providers. WICs popularity stems, according to Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, from the widespread belief that research studies have proved that WIC "works" by improving the diets and health of recipients. In this volume, Besharov and Germanis analyze those studies and show that the extensive benefits cited by some analysts and policymakers have been exaggerated and relate primarily to research conducted on WIC's prenatal program, which involves only 11 percent of program participants. Even there, they assert that the evidence suggests that WIC's benefits are modest at best." "Part 1 of this volume presents Besharov and Germanis's analysis. Part 2 includes comments on Besharov and Germanis's study by five leading experts on WIC program research: Michael J. Brien and Christopher A. Swann, Nancy R. Burstein, Barbara L. Devaney, and Robert Greenstein."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12243194.
- catalog contributor b12243195.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Rethinking WIC is an analysis of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, WIC is a $5 billion per year program and serves about 7.3 million women and children. WIC provides vouchers to low-income families to purchase specific high-nutrition food packages to supplement diets, nutritional and health counseling, and referrals to health care and social service providers. WICs popularity stems, according to Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, from the widespread belief that research studies have proved that WIC "works" by improving the diets and health of recipients. In this volume, Besharov and Germanis analyze those studies and show that the extensive benefits cited by some analysts and policymakers have been exaggerated and relate primarily to research conducted on WIC's prenatal program, which involves only 11 percent of program participants. Even there, they assert that the evidence suggests that WIC's benefits are modest at best." "Part 1 of this volume presents Besharov and Germanis's analysis. Part 2 includes comments on Besharov and Germanis's study by five leading experts on WIC program research: Michael J. Brien and Christopher A. Swann, Nancy R. Burstein, Barbara L. Devaney, and Robert Greenstein."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index.".
- catalog description "Rethinking WIC -- Program benefits -- Program coverage -- Previous research -- Research weaknesses -- Does WIC "work"? -- Programmatic flexibility -- Rigorous evaluation -- Addressing the selection-bias problem for program targeting and design / Michael J. Brien and Christopher A. Swann -- An incremental approach to testing WIC's efficacy / Nancy R. Burstein -- A defense of the existing research on WIC / Barbara L. Devaney -- Enhancing WIC's effectiveness / Robert Greenstein.".
- catalog extent "vii, 172 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0844741485 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0844741493 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Evaluative studies.".
- catalog isPartOf "[AEI evaluative studies]".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : AEI Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "363.8/83/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Children Nutrition United States.".
- catalog subject "Food relief United States.".
- catalog subject "HV696.F6 B475 2001".
- catalog subject "Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Rethinking WIC -- Program benefits -- Program coverage -- Previous research -- Research weaknesses -- Does WIC "work"? -- Programmatic flexibility -- Rigorous evaluation -- Addressing the selection-bias problem for program targeting and design / Michael J. Brien and Christopher A. Swann -- An incremental approach to testing WIC's efficacy / Nancy R. Burstein -- A defense of the existing research on WIC / Barbara L. Devaney -- Enhancing WIC's effectiveness / Robert Greenstein.".
- catalog title "Rethinking WIC : an evaluation of the Women, Infants, and Children Program / Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis.".
- catalog type "text".