Previous research, using data from 1989-91, found that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients … SNAP benefit each month, as well as exogenous variation in NHANES interview dates. Adults and children are considered …

We examine enrollment in the U.S. Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP) by health status and … find that while SNAP-eligible adults in poor overall health and with multiple chronic conditions are more likely to jointly … enroll in SNAP and Medicaid, they are less likely to enroll in SNAP alone. We also find that the conditional probability of …

mitigated the increase. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp program) is the … note, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed in February of 2009 expanded access to SNAP and enhanced … program benefits. This research investigates whether an additional SNAP benefit dollar reduces household food-insecurity. The …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of food prices on food insecurity for SNAP recipients using data from the Current … the endogeneity of SNAP receipt to food insecurity and for household-level unobservables. We find that the average effect … for SNAP households. These results are fairly large in terms of the prevalence of food insecurity in our sample. An …

costs, in the form of online applications and call centers, in the growth in county-level SNAP caseloads. We find that SNAP … radio advertisements are associated with a small increase in the SNAP caseload, though the magnitude of the estimates are … sensitive to the econometric specification. The SNAP television ads, which were run only in 2006, are negatively correlated with …

This paper examines the relationship between household food security status, SNAP participation, and time used in food … Supplement, we find that food insecurity and SNAP participation are positive predictors of number of minutes single adult … households use in food preparation. Meanwhile, SNAP participation is a negative predictor of food acquisition. Although these …

In this paper we first study where food purchases are made by SNAP recipients in comparison to eligible and ineligible … non-SNAP recipients. Particularly, we analyze whether SNAP recipients use retail food outlets which generally have lower … prices and how far they travel to purchase food. We next compare the timing of shopping decisions between SNAP recipients and …