“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits

Carolyn Barnes; Sarah Halpern-Meekin; Jill Hoiting

doi:10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.02

Article Information

vol. 9 no. 5 32-55

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.02

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online August 3, 2023.

© 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Barnes, Carolyn, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, and Jill Hoiting. 2023. “‘I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped’: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(5): 32–55. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.02. The authors thank the students and interviewers who have worked on the Baby’s First Years: Mothers’ Voices study and, particularly, the mothers who shared their time and stories with us. The Baby’s First Years: Mothers’ Voices study receives financial support from the Heising Simons Foundation, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families, and the Russell Sage Foundation. For more study information, see https://www.babysfirstyears.com. Please direct correspondence to: Carolyn Barnes, at cb120@duke.edu, 201 Science Dr., Durham, NC 27705, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Carolyn Barnes^a,
Sarah Halpern-Meekin^b and
Jill Hoiting^c

^aAssistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, United States
^bProfessor in the School of Human Ecology and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
^cPhD student in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States