The Determinants of Food Stamp Program Participation

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

Barriers to participation in the food stamp program among food pantry clients in Los Angeles.

Substantial numbers of food pantry clients are eligible for food stamps but do not receive them. Background characteristics of 14317 food pantry users in Los Angeles were analyzed to provide information helpful in food stamp outreach programs. Ninety percent of food pantry users were living well below poverty level, 59% were Hispanic, and 44% were homeless. Only 15% of the food pantry clients r...

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...