Differential Implementation and Impacts of Policies to Combat Poverty and Food Insecurity

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

In this panel, we present three papers that examine heterogeneities in both the implementation and impact of nutrition-related policies designed to promote child health and wellbeing in the U.S. Two of the papers assess the Community Eligibility Provision of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which provides free school meals to children in high-poverty schools in the U.S. One paper examines heterogeneities in the ability of states to accurately target this program to eligible children. The other examines heterogeneities in the program's impact on child obesity by school characteristics including demographic characteristics of a school's student population. The third paper examines another program designed to improve nutritional outcomes for both children and adults in the Navajo Nation -- The Healthy Dine Nation Act (HDNA). That paper examines the impact of HDNA on birth weight and other health outcomes for infants and their mothers.

Policy Area

• Poverty and Income Policy

Secondary Policy Area

• Health Policy

Chair

• Melissa Knox, University of Washington

Discussant

• David Frisvold, University of Iowa

Organizer

• Melissa Knox, University of Washington

Individual Presentations

• The Consequences of States' Social Safety Net Accessibility for Direct Certification, CEP, and School Funding - Presenting Author: Emily K Gutierrez, Urban Institute

• The Impact of Healthy Diet Promotion Policies on Maternal and Infant Health in the Navajo Nation - Presenting Author: John Cawley, Syracuse University

• School Participation in the Community Eligibility Provision and Obesity Prevalence: Evaluation of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity - Presenting Author: Anna Localio, University of Washington

• Fighting Poverty, Losing Time? The Earned Income Tax Credit and Time Poverty and Quality of Time - Presenting Author: Wan-Hsuan Chiang, National Taiwan University; Non-Presenting Co-Author: Julia Shu-Huah Wang, National Taiwan University