Food Stamp Participation Among Adult-Only Households

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The Impact of SNAP on Material Hardships: Evidence From Broad‐Based Categorical Eligibility Expansions

“…Estimates are weighted using the household weights and robust standard errors clustered at the state level in parentheses. Data: SIPP and CPS-FSS 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011 enrollment and food insecurity variables, two estimates from the SIPP and the CPS-FSS data are reported next to each other. The top panel shows results for the full sample.…”

“…Estimates are weighted using the household weights and robust standard errors clustered at the state level in parentheses. Data: SIPP 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011 extensive BBCE rules. The results in column 3 of Panel A suggest that relaxed eligibility standards lead to a 2.4 percentage point decrease in the incidence of falling behind on paying rent.…”

“…Estimates are weighted using the household weights and robust standard errors clustered at the state level in parentheses. Data: SIPP 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011 for SNAP, where eligibility is imputed to households based on the SNAP eligibility rules specific to each state and month and observed household characteristics such as demographics, income, and assets (see Supporting Information Methods and Data Appendix for details). First stage estimates in column 1 indicate that simulated eligibility is strongly correlated with imputed SNAP eligibility.…”

“…To address this problem, many studies have exploited exogenous variation in SNAP policies or randomized field experiments (Ziliak, Gundersen, and Figlio 2003;Borjas 2004;Bollinger and Hagstrom 2008;Hoynes and Schanzenbach 2009;Ribar, Edelhoch, and Liu 2010;Nord and Prell 2011;Ratcliffe, McKernan, and Zhang 2011;Nord 2013;Cunha 2014). 3 For instance, Borjas (2004) examines the 1996 welfare reform as an exogenous shock that limited the eligibility of immigrants for food stamps and the SSI program, finding a sizable increase in food insecurity for this group.…”

Wic Participation and Maternal Behavior: Breastfeeding and Work Leave

“…11. Similarly, several recent studies estimate the impact of the SNAP program on low-income women's food consumption (Wiig and Smith 2009), female obesity (Baum 2011;Fan 2010); and adult-only household participation (Ribar, Edelhoch, and Liu 2010). not. Although selection bias is not eliminated, these studies suggest a positive effect on birth weight, although the effects sometimes differ by race (Brien and Swann 2001;Chatterji et al 2002;Kowaleski-Jones and Duncan 2002).…”