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The Evaluation of the Summer EBT for Children Demonstration

NCT02877147 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 85000

Last updated 2016-08-24

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Summary

The Summer Electronic Benefit for Children (SEBTC) demonstration provided food assistance to households with school-aged children during the summer through electronic benefit transfer (EBT) procedures used by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) programs. The evaluation design included two components: an impact study and an implementation study. The evaluation assessed the impact of SEBTC on children's food security and nutritional status, household food expenditures and purchasing behaviors, parental perceptions, and participation in nutrition assistance programs. The implementation study analyzed SEBTC use patterns using administrative data, and described demonstration implementation and costs.

Conditions

  • Food Insecurity Among Children
  • Dietary Modification

Interventions

OTHER

SEBTC

SEBTC benefits were issued on EBT cards using either the existing EBT delivery systems for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC). Sites selected only one of the two EBT systems to be used to implement SEBTC prior to random assignment; households were not randomized to a specific delivery system.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Maxiumus

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • USDA Food and Nutrition Service

    collaborator FED

  • Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Abt Associates

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Stephen Bell, Ph.D. · Abt Associates

  • Ronette Briefel · Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2014-09-30

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