Medicating the food stamp program.

Food Stamp Program

The Impact of Food Stamp Program on Relative Food Consumption and Food Choices

  I n this paper, the effects of the Food Stamp (FS) Program (now referred to as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-SNAP) on individuals’ food choices are evaluated. In other words, I examine how households' food choice or relative food consumption is changed by FS participation. For this purpose six food groups are created using 2016 Consumer Expenditure Diary Surv...

Work incentives and the Food Stamp Program

☆ We are grateful to Bob Schoeni and Donna Nordqui Barreca and Rachel Henry Currans-Sheehan provided Schanzenbach thanks the Joint Center for Poverty Re and Nutrition Research Innovation and Development and the Population Research Center at the University of support. ⁎ Corresponding author at: School of Education and So versity, IL, United States. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H.W. Ho...

Immigration and the Food Stamp Program

Much of the research analyzing immigrant participation in welfare programs investigates the extent to which immigrants enroll in cash benefit programs, with little attention being paid to the trends and determinants of immigrant participation in other programs. This paper uses data drawn from the decennial Censuses, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and the Current Population Surv...

The Food Stamp Program and Supplemental Security Income.

The Food Stamp Program (FSP) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are important parts of national public assistance policy, and there is considerable overlap in the populations that the programs serve. About half of all SSI recipients reside in FSP recipient households. This article uses Social Security administrative data and the Food Stamp Quality Control samples for federal fiscal years 20...