The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is the major purchaser of infant formula in the United States. To reduce the cost of infant formula to WIC, Federal law requires that WIC State agencies operate a costcontainment system for the purchase of infant...

Most Americans consume diets that do not meet Federal dietary recommendations. A common explanation is that healthier foods are more expensive than less healthy foods. To investigate this assumption, the authors compare prices of healthy and less healthy foods using three different price...

The Journal of Agricultural Economics Research was initiated by O.V. Wells in 1949 as "a medium for the publication of technical articles." In more than four decades of articles and reviews can be seen the change and progress in research by USDA social scientists. Our purpose here is to provide...