Are People Ashamed of Paying with Food Stamps?

As is amply documented, there appears to be a large discrepancy between the marginal propensity to purchase food out of cash income and that out of food stamps. In this paper, we have examined both the formal and empirical bases of the claim that marginal welfare stigma explains this puzzling empirical regularity.

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Year of publication:	1999-11
Authors:	Breunig ; R. ; Dasgupta, I.
Institutions:	College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
Subject:	SOCIAL WELFARE

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	33 pages
Classification:	I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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