The School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study provides data on a broad array of topics, including critical information about the food and nutrient content of school meals, the costs of school meals, the food environments in schools, and the contribution of school meals to children's overall diets.
This study examined the potential sale of WIC infant formula through online e-commerce websites. Mathematica worked to monitor e-commerce websites and provided insight into online sales of infant formula.
We use linked administrative data from WIC, Medicaid, and vital records to analyze associations between (1) WIC participation during pregnancy and birth outcomes, health care use/costs, and maternal behaviors and risk factors; and (2) child WIC participation and health care use and costs.
The Healthy Harlem initiative is a model for promoting healthy lifestyles in the charter schools, early childhood programs, and afterschool programs operated by the Harlem Children’s Zone® (HCZ). Mathematica's evaluation includes both an implementation/process study and an impact study.
We built a database to support the initial version of the registry, which focused on measures in (1) physical activity environments and policies, (2) food environments and policies, (3) individual dietary behaviors, and (4) individual physical activity behaviors (including sedentary behaviors).
Mathematica's SNDA-IV study examined the nutritional quality of meals and snacks offered and served to children in the NSLP and SBP. The study also assessed other issues related to school food environments and meal service operations, including policies about and availability of competitive foods (foods...