Younger Siblings Can Be Good for Your Health: An Examination of Spillover Benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

Robinson, Christina

doi:10.1007/s10834-012-9325-0

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“…13 Notes 1. There are studies who investigate resource dilution on later-life-mortality, such as Barclay and Kolk (2015) and Donrovich, Puschmann, and Matthijs (2014) and others who study other aspects of health in contemporary societies such as (Robinson, 2012). 2.…”

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Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Riswick

2018

The History of the Family

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Child survival depends on the allocation of resources within the household. The size and composition of the sibling set influences parental division of resources and can in turn affect survival chances.In spite of recent advances in research on sibling effects, previous studies have often used the resource dilution hypothesis, which neglects the specific historical context which shapes household structure and organisation. This study therefore focuses specifically on the variation in historical context by examining sibling effects on infant and child mortality in three regions of the Netherlands in the period 1863-1910. It does so by connecting the gendered and the conditional resource-dilution model with each other as a conceptual framework. Changing household composition is taken into account by using longitudinal data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, time-varying variables and Cox proportional-hazard models to study sibling size and composition. The results show that the number and gender of siblings play an important role in determining child mortality, but are less significant in determining infant mortality. The number of same-sex siblings has a negative impact on boys' survival chances in the Netherlands, which suggests that after the age of one, boys experienced more competition from their brothers. The reason for this could be their assigned roles within the household and on the family farm. A negative influence of the number of sisters is only found for child mortality chances for girls in the nuclear northwest family region. Here, fewer children were needed to work inside or outside the household, and girls and boys may even have been interchangeable. The results underscore the importance of looking at the interaction between the specific historical context and gender when trying to understand how sibship size and composition influenced children's mortality risks and shaped inequality within the household. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Riswick

2018

The History of the Family

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“…Children who were breastfeeding or had unreliable, missing, or incomplete recall data were excluded from the sample. We defined WIC participation status using the household-level question due to larger sample size, and in order to account for potential spillover effects from siblings participating in WIC [15]. We assessed dietary intake for four racial/ethnic groups: non-Hispanic White (N-H White), non-Hispanic Black (N-H Black), Hispanic, and other/mixed.…”

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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Dietary Intake of U.S. Children Participating in WIC

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Recent studies have assessed diet quality of low-income U.S. children participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), but differences by race/ethnicity remain unknown. We assessed racial/ethnic disparities in nutrient intake from dietary sources (not supplements) among children participating in WIC, with a focus on priority nutrients and food groups for future WIC food package revisions, as described in a recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). We used data from the 2011–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and multivariable linear regression analysis to evaluate relationships between race/ethnicity and nutrient/food group intake of children participating in WIC. All data were analyzed using SAS 9.4 survey procedures, accounting for the complex survey design of the NHANES. Compared to non-Hispanic White children, Hispanic children had diets with better nutrient distribution and lower dietary energy density, while non-Hispanic Black children had diets with poorer nutrient intake. Hispanic children had higher potassium and fiber intake, and consumed more legumes, while non-Hispanic Black children had lower calcium and vitamin D intake, higher sodium intake, and lower total dairy intake, compared to non-Hispanic White children. These findings can inform WIC nutrition education messages and future food package revisions.

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“…This study builds on work by Ver Ploeg [10], Robinson [11] and others. Both Ver Ploeg and Robinson examined spillover benefits to older ineligible children of WIC households.…”

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Intent vs. Implementation—Food Allocation to Adult Males in WIC Households

Martin-Anderson¹

2014

Journal of Nutrition and Health Sciences

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Younger Siblings Can Be Good for Your Health: An Examination of Spillover Benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Testing the conditional resource-dilution hypothesis: the impact of sibship size and composition on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands, 1863–1910

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Dietary Intake of U.S. Children Participating in WIC

Intent vs. Implementation—Food Allocation to Adult Males in WIC Households

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