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Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Fiscal 2003 Research Funding Opportunities

FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program made awards in fiscal 2003 to fund research on Program Design and Operations; Food Assistance as a Safety Net; and Obesity, Diet Quality, and Health. The program is publicly announced and competitively awarded through the use of peer review panels.
(Click on the title for the project's description)

Investigator

City/State

Title

Award
amount

Program Design and Operations
David Betson
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN WIC and the Economics of Infant Formula Contracts, Rebates, and Wholesale Prices $70,000
Jeffrey Passel
The Urban Institute
Washington, DC Food Stamp Use by Legal Immigrants Before and After the 2003 Restorations $200,000

Thomas MaCurdy
The SPHERE Institute

Burlingame, CA Simulating Program Costs and Participation Under the Farm Bill and Alternative Food Assistance Policies $140,000
Food Assistance as a Safety Net
Steven Yen
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN Food Stamps, Food Insecurity and Expenditures: A Simultaneous Equation System $70,000
Donald Rose
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA Employment, Home Meal Production, Food Spending, and Food Security in Food Stamp Households $136,000
Allen Schirm
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Princeton, NJ Sources of Variation in State Food Stamp Participation Rates $202,000
Carol Baron
Virginia Department of Social Services
Richmond, VA A Study of Locality, Agency, and Individual Characteristics Affecting Food Stamp Program Participation in Virginia $80,000
Obesity, Diet Quality, and Health
Sonya Jones
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN Modifying Effects of Participation in Food Assistance Programs on the Obesity, Health, and Well-Being of Adults $67,431
Edward Frongillo, Jr.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Modifying Effects of Participation in Food Assistance Programs on the Weight Status, Health, Development, and Well-Being of Children

$67,066

Roland Sturm
RAND
Santa Monica, CA

Food Prices and Availability and Children’s Health and Developmental Outcomes

$174,897

Mary Murimi
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA

Methodology to Evaluate Effects of Team Nutrition Program in Schools

$25,000

Christine Ranney
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Food Sufficiency, Food Stamp Program Participation and the Health of the Elderly

$80,000

 

See awards from all years

 

For more information, contact: Victor Oliveira

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Updated date: December 18, 2006