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Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Fiscal 1998 Research Funding Opportunities

FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program made awards in fiscal 1998 to fund research on Welfare Reform, Food Security, and Nutrition and Health. The program is publicly announced and competitively awarded through the use of peer review panels.

Investigator

City/State

Title

Award
amount

Welfare Reform
Marilyn Edelhoch
South Carolina Department of Social Services		 Columbia, SC Studies of Households Who Leave the Food Stamp Program: South Carolina $310,746
Sandra Hofferth
The Regents of University of Michigan		 Ann Arbor, MI Welfare Reform Effects on Food Assistance Use and Family Well-Being $300,000
Jon Jacobson
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.		 Washington, DC The Consequences of Welfare Reform and Economic Change for the Food Stamp Program and the Economy as a Whole $374,229
Helen Jensen
Iowa State University		 Ames, IA Welfare and Food Assistance at the State Level: Methods and Iowa Estimates $223,170
Helen Jensen
Iowa State University		 Ames, IA Studies of Households Who Leave the Food Stamp Program: Iowa $400,000
Robert Lerman
The Urban Institute		 Washington, DC The Changing Welfare System in Rural Areas $249,617
Gregory Mills
Abt Associates, Inc.		 Cambridge, MA Studies of Households Who Leave the Food Stamp Program: Arizona $399,471
Anu Rangarajan
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.		 Princeton, NJ Studies of Households Who Leave the Food Stamp Program: Illinois $377,857
Carole Trippe
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.		 Washington, DC Changes in the Characteristics of the Food Stamp Program Population Under Welfare Reform $127,383
James Ziliak
University of Oregon		 Eugene, OR The Impacts of Welfare Reform and the Macroeconomy on Food Stamp Caseloads and Expenditures $75,000
Food Security
Helen Jensen
Iowa State University		 Ames, IA Improving the Measurement of Food Security and Hunger $200,000
Nutrition and Health
Graham Colditz
Harvard School of Public Health		 Boston, MA Dietary Intake and Health Outcomes $490,209
James Hersey
Research Triangle Institute		 Washington, DC Evaluation of FSP Nutrition Education $498,940
Walter Willett
Harvard School of Public Health		 Boston, MA Research to Assess Links Between Diet Quality and Health $97,098

 

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