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Elizabeth Frazao

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Can Food Stamps Do More to Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective—Food Spending Patterns of Low-Income Households: Will Increasing Purchasing Power Result in Healthier Food Choices?
Can Food Stamps Do More to Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective—Overview: Can Food Stamps Do More To Improve Food Choices?
Can Food Stamps Do More to Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective—How Can We Tell If We Are Making a Difference? ERS Efforts To Improve Evaluation of Nutrition Outcomes
Can Food Stamps Do More To Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective
Nutrition and Health Characteristics of Low-Income Populations: Meal Patterns, Milk and Soft Drink Consumption, and Supplement Use
Nutrition and Health Characteristics of Low-Income Populations: Clinic Measures of Iron, Folate, Vitamin B12, Cholesterol, Bone Density, and Lead Poisoning
Nutrition and Health Characteristics of Low-Income Populations
How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables?
How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables?
WIC and the Retail Price of Infant Formula
America's Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences

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Can Low-Income Americans Afford to Satisfy MyPyramid Fruit and Vegetable Guidelines?

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Fruit and Vegetable Prices

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Email: efrazao@ers.usda.gov

Briefly:
Betsy Frazao is Assistant Deputy Director for WIC Research in the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program of USDA's Economic Research Service. Dr. Frazao worked several years as an International Nutrition Planner helping to develop multisectoral nutrition programs, which led to her interest in applying economic theory to nutrition-related problems. She joined ERS in 1989, where she continued to combine her interests in nutrition and economics.

Education:
She received a BS in food science from the University of California-Davis, an MS in nutritional biochemistry from MIT, and a PhD in economics from North Carolina State University.

Selected Publications:
Reed, J., E. Frazao, and R. Itskowitz. How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables?, AIB No. 790, USDA, ERS, 2004.

Oliveira, V., M. Prell, D. Smallwood, and E. Frazao. WIC and the Retail Price of Infant Formula. FANRR No. 39, USDA, ERS, 2004.

Frazao, E., and J. Allshouse. "Strategies for Intervention: Commentary and Debate." Journal of Nutrition, 133, (2003):844S-847S. [Presented as part of the Symposium on Sugar and Fat: From Gene to Culture, at Experimental Biology 2002 Meeting].

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