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Cash to Carrots
Testing food environment mediation of cash transfer effects on children's diet in the Baby's First Years Study
Health & Place | Former Population Health Scholar: Samantha Gailey; MPC Member: Theresa Osypuk
- Cash transfers improved children's fruit and vegetable intake at age 2
- Changes in food environments did not mediate dietary improvement
- Strengths include RCT-based mediation analysis and multiple food access measures
- Results suggest other pathways link supplemental income to child diet
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Mieke Beth Thomeer
Mieke Beth Thomeer, PhD, is a medical sociologist with a research focus on gender, sexuality, and aging and training in demography, gerontology, and sociology. Her research uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to consider how sexualities and gender shape intimacy and health dynamics within romantic relationships in mid- and later-life.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023) funded through a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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