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Impacts of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact on the WIC Program: Evidence from Boston and Hartford

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Qingbin Wang ,
Zooyob Anne ,
Catherine Halbrendt ,
Charles Nicholson  and
Jaimie Sung
Qingbin Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont
Zooyob Anne
Affiliation:
Department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont
Catherine Halbrendt
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii
Charles Nicholson
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University
Jaimie Sung
Affiliation:
Department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont
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Abstract

This paper examines the impacts of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact (Compact) on the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program using an autoregressive-moving average (ARMA) model and data from Boston and Hartford. While the results for Boston indicate that the difference between the net fluid milk price paid by WIC program and the forecasted fluid milk price with no Compact in effect was not significant over the period of July 1997 to June 1998, the results for Hartford suggest that the net price paid by WIC was significantly greater than the forecasted price with no Compact in effect over the same period. A similar analysis of the changes in markups suggests that the increase in the net fluid milk price paid by the WIC program in Hartford was largely due to increased markups.

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Impacts of the Northeast Dairy Compact
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , April 2001 , pp. 104 - 112
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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