| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25131 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25131 |
| From Paper to Plastic: Understanding the Impact of eWIC on WIC Recipient Behavior | |
| Andrew S. Hanks; Carolyn Gunther; Dean Lillard; Robert L. Scharff | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-10-08 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Evidence shows that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is underutilized. WIC enrolls only sixty percent of eligible persons. Participants claim only a fraction of available benefits. Researchers suggest that people underutilize WIC because of the time needed to enroll in and use WIC and because participants may believe that, if others notice them participating in WIC, community members will stigmatize them. Recently enacted policies may reduce both time costs and potential for stigma associated with WIC. Congress mandated that, by 2020, all states disburse WIC benefits through an Electronic Benefits Transfer (eWIC) system. The eWIC potentially reduces the time required for each transaction and makes it more difficult to identify beneficiaries. We analyze data on grocery expenditures of 11,887 WIC-participating households in one state over the period it implemented eWIC. We find that, after beneficiaries began redeeming WIC benefits through eWIC, spending on non-WIC eligible foods did not change but redemptions of WIC benefits increased. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25131 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582805 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrew S. Hanks,Carolyn Gunther,Dean Lillard,et al. From Paper to Plastic: Understanding the Impact of eWIC on WIC Recipient Behavior. 2018. |
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| w25131.pdf（267KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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