Policy Watch: The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform

Welfare Reform and Food Stamp Caseload Dynamics

We use state-level panel data for federal fiscal years 1980–1998 to estimate the impacts of welfare reform and the business cycle on food stamp caseloads. The model we employ is a dynamic function of past caseloads, economic factors, AFDC and Food Stamp Program policies, political factors, AFDC caseload levels, and unobserved fixed and trending heterogeneity. Our results suggest that the robust...

Food Stamp Reform

This paper analyzes three bills to reform the food stamp program: S.2451, sponsored by Senators McGovern and Dole; S.2537, the Administration's proposal; and S.1993, sponsored by Senator Buckley. The most important provisions of these reform bills are summarized and evaluated, emphasizing proposed income maximums for eligibility and changes in benefit levels. Then the impacts of each bill on se...

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...

Food Stamp Program

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...