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Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Fiscal 2001 Research Funding Opportunities

FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program made awards in fiscal 2001 to fund research on Workforce Attachment, Income Volatility, and Administrative Costs; Food Assistance as a Safety Net; Targeting High-Needs Subgroups; Eating Patterns, Food Choices, and Health Outcomes; and Nutrition Education: Public and Private Returns to Education. 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

Workforce Attachment, Income Volatility, and Administrative Cost
Nancy Burstein
Abt Associates, Inc.
Cambridge, MA Maternal Employment and Children's Nutrition Outcomes $206,904
Scott Cody
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Washington, DC Food Stamp Program Entry and Exit: Economic and Policy Influences on Participation Decisions $200,341

Robert Goerge
The University of Chicago

Chicago, IL Understanding Program Participation Decisions of the Working Poor $98,452
Signe-Mary McKernan
The Urban Institute
Washington, DC Employment Factors Influencing Food Stamp Program Participation Among the Working Poor $149,996
Kelly Mikelson
The Urban Institute
Washington, DC The Effect of EITC on Food Stamp Program Participation Among the Working Poor $139,849
Gregory Mills
Abt Associates, Inc.
Cambridge, MA Food Stamp Certification Periods and Payment Accuracy: State Experience During 1996-2000 $159,463
Food Assistance as a Safety Net
Steven Haider
RAND
Santa Monica, CA Evaluating the Impact of School Breakfast and Lunch $150,000
Bong Joo Lee
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL Effects of WIC and Food Stamp Program Participation on Child Outcomes $134,949
Jane Mosley
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS The Complementary Roles of Public and Private Assistance $110,000
Targeting High-Needs Subgroups
Barbara Devaney
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Princeton, NJ Assessing the Nutrient Intakes of High-Needs Subgroups Using the Dietary Reference Intakes $247,976
Sara Gable
The Curators of the University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

The Ecological Predictors and Developmental Outcomes of Persistent Childhood Obesity

$181,485

Jean Weese
Auburn University
Auburn, AL Diet Quality and Its Relationship to Obesity in Rural Alabama African American Children $149,670
Eating Patterns, Food Choices, and Health Outcomes
John Cook
Boston Medical Center Corp.
Boston, MA The Associations Among Food Assistance Program Participation, Food Security, and Child and Maternal Health Disparities $108,981
Barbara Anne Dennison
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
Cooperstown, NY Development of Eating Patterns and Dietary Behaviors that Predict Child Obesity $306,641
Pamela Haines
University of North Carolina School of Public Health and School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC Lifestyle Mediators of Diet Quality $199,994
Betsy Haughton
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN Impact of Food Sufficiency on Food Choices of Low-Income Children $48,581
Suzanne Murphy
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI Dietary Patterns and Nutritional Adequacy: Does Variety Matter? $200,000
Nutrition Education: Public and Private Returns to Information
Loren Bell
Health Systems Research, Inc.
Washington, DC Evaluating Changes in WIC Participant Food Purchasing as a Result of WIC Nutrition Education $260,187

 

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Updated date: December 18, 2006