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Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Fiscal 2011 Research Funding Opportunities

FANRP's competitive grants and cooperative agreements program made awards in fiscal 2011 to fund research on...

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Investigator

City/State

Title

Award
amount*

Food Assistance Programs, Food Choices, and the Economy
Dr. Theodore Joyce
National Bureau of Economic Research
Cambridge, MA Effect of New WIC Food Packages on Breastfeeding and Food Package Choices $198,000
Mr. Loren Bell
Altarum Institute
Ann Arbor, MI An Examination of WIC Participant Redemption Patterns In Kentucky Prior to and After Implementation of Electronic Benefits Transfer $176,000
Dr. Carol Spaulding
Texas A&M; University
College Station, TX Using the National Food and Nutrition Survey (NATFAN) to Examine WIC Participant Food Choices and Intakes Before and After Changes in the Food Benefit $200,000
Dr. Tatiana Andreyeva
Yale University
New Haven, CT The Economics of Beverage Choices among WIC and SNAP participants $129,000
Dr. Tullaya Boonsaeng
Clemson University
Clemson, SC The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Household Spending: A Flexible Demand System Approach $105,000
Dr. Caroline Danielson
Public Policy Institute of California
San Francisco, CA Local Area Determinants of Nutrition Assistance Program Caseloads $221,000
Dr. Linda Giannarelli
The Urban Institute
Washington, DC The Effect of Food Programs on Alternative Poverty Measures $171,000
Using Behavioral Economics and Incentives to Promote Child Nutrition
Dr. David Just
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs (additional funding) $571,000
Dr. Joseph Price
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT Using Nudges and Incentives to Promote Long-Run Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables in Children $244,000
Dr. Gregory Madden
Utah State University
Logan, UT Long-term Effects of Incentivizing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption $155,000

*Award amounts are rounded to the nearest thousand.



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Updated date: October 21, 2011