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

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...

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...

Food choices during Ramadan

Few studies have assessed the dietary Practices of people with diabetes during Ramadan (1). A sub study of Ramadan prospective diabetes study (2) which was conducted at the outpatient department of Baqai Institute of Diabetology and endocrinology, Karachi Pakistan in 2009 analyzed the food choices of patients with diabetes during Ramadan. Several irregularities regarding dietary intake and food...

Does the Food Stamp Program Affect Food Security Status and the Composition of Food Expenditures?

This article considers interaction among participation in the Food Stamp Program (FSP), food security status, and the composition of food expenditures. A quadratic almost ideal demand system with a bootstrapping two-step method of estimation is applied to data from the Current Population Survey–Food Security Supplement data and used to estimate the model and account for endogeneity between the ...

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...