Abstract: The literature assessing the efficacy of the food stamp program has long puzzled over the negative correlation between food stamp receipt and various health related outcomes such as food security. We examine the impact of food stamps on food insecurity and health in households with children, formally accounting for identification problems arising from the endogenous selection and misc...

Objectives. This study examines whether the mental health consequences associated with food insufficiency vary by food stamp participation status and/or the value of the food stamp benefit received. Methods. We use longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics along with fixed-effect methods that control for unobserved heterogeneity to test our hypotheses. Results. We find that, con...

Both joint or separate participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Food Stamp Program reduces the risk of child abuse or neglect and several nutrition-related health problems, such as anemia, failure to thrive, and nutritional deficiency. This study examines the relationship between WIC and Food Stamp Program participation and young...

The high prevalence of obesity among low income groups has led some to question the role of food assistance programs in contributing to the problem. The USDA's Food Stamp Program (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - SNAP) is the largest food assistance program in the United States with over 40 million participants. This paper employed systematic realist review methods t...

This paper presents preliminary estimates of the number of persons eligible for food stamps, on average throughout 1974, for each state and the nation. Previous estimates of the number of food-stamp eligibles have all been based on national household sample data that did not allow an adequate allocation of the resultant national figure among states. By contrast, this study begins with U.S. cens...

Among those who participate in federal food assistance programs, children comprise an overwhelming portion. While children represent only a quarter of the US population, they account for 40 percent of Americans in poverty and almost 70 percent of those on welfare. Unfortunately, this puts children at a disproportionate risk for an abundance of adverse outcomes – ranging from minor health proble...