Employment Factors Influencing Food Stamp Program Participation

McKernan, Signe‐Mary; Ratcliffe, Caroline; Rosenberg, Emily S.

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“…Research has also examined the impact of the increase in Food Stamp eligibility certification requirements in the 1990s and found that increases in certification requirements decreased Food Stamp participation (Currie & Grogger, 2001;Kabbanni & Wilde, 2003;Kornfeld, 2002;and McKernan et al, 2003). This paper builds on this research by investigating whether recent state policies have been successful in increasing program participation rates of income-eligible families with children.…”

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Has the Food Stamp program become more accessible? Impacts of recent changes in reporting requirements and asset eligibility limits

Hanratty¹

2006

J. Pol. Anal. Manage.

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This paper uses data from the 1996 and 2001 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to assess the impact of recent policy initiatives intended to increase access to Food Stamps. It finds that reductions in state certification requirements increased Food Stamp participation rates of income-eligible families with children by one to two percentage points from 2001 to 2003, a change that is comparable to the impact of changes in economic conditions over this period. It did not find consistent evidence of an impact of relaxing vehicle asset limits, or of offering continuous eligibility through the Semi-Annual|Simplified Reporting option. © 2006 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

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Has the Food Stamp program become more accessible? Impacts of recent changes in reporting requirements and asset eligibility limits

Hanratty¹

2006

J. Pol. Anal. Manage.

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“…Nevertheless, the available evidence indicates that the program behavior of adult-only households is different. Farrell et al (2003), McKernan and Ratcliffe (2003), and Bartlett et al (2004) estimated household-level models of food stamp participation that included dummy indicators for ABAWD households. They all found that ABAWD households were less likely than other households to participate.…”

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Food Stamp Participation among Adult‐Only Households

Ribar¹,

Edelhoch²,

Liu³

2010

Southern Economic Journal

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Several recent changes in the Food Stamp Program have been directed toward households without children, including new work requirements for able‐bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) and easier application and recertification procedures for the disabled and the elderly. Despite their relevance to policy makers, adult‐only households have not been extensively examined. We use administrative records from South Carolina to investigate how spells of food stamp participation for adult‐only households vary with ABAWD provisions, recertification intervals, and other characteristics. We find that households that were subject to ABAWD policies had shorter spells and lower rates of food stamp participation than other households. We also find that households were much more likely to leave the Food Stamp Program at recertification dates than at other dates. We further find that time limits were associated with exits with and without earnings, suggesting that this policy increased self‐sufficiency for some households but left others without support.

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“…Nevertheless, the available evidence indicates that the program behavior of adult-only households is different. Bartlett et al (2004), Farrell et al (2003), and McKernan and Ratcliffe (2003 estimated household-level models of food stamp participation that included dummy indicators for ABAWD households.…”

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Food Stamp Participation Among Adult-Only Households

Ribar

Edelhoch²,

Liu

2009

SSRN Journal

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Employment Factors Influencing Food Stamp Program Participation

Cited by 24 publications

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Has the Food Stamp program become more accessible? Impacts of recent changes in reporting requirements and asset eligibility limits

Has the Food Stamp program become more accessible? Impacts of recent changes in reporting requirements and asset eligibility limits

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