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Aid to jobless workers in Florida in the face of the Great Recession : the interaction of unemployment insurance and the supplemental nutritional assistance program

Heflin, Colleen M.; Mueser, Peter R. - 2013

Although many programs redistribute resources in the U.S., two program were central in providing a safety net for those facing hardship during the Great Recession: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which grew to 47.7 million people in January 2013 - or 15.1 percent of all...

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An apple a day? : adult food stamp eligibility and health care utilization among immigrants

East, Chloe N.; Friedson, Andrew - 2018

In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one of the largest safety net programs in the U.S. today, the universal nature of the program across geographic areas and over time limits the potential for quasi-experimental...

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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Do state Snap policies influence program participation among seniors?

Jones, Jordan; Courtemanche, Charles; Denteh, Augustine; … - 2021

Senior participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has traditionally been lower than other groups among those eligible, with historical estimates below 50 percent. We examine the impacts of state SNAP policies on program participation among low-income senior (age 60 and...

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Estimating the associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and food purchases with imperfect administrative measures of participation

Courtemanche, Charles; Denteh, Augustine; Tchernis, Rusty - 2018

Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for econometric estimates. We explore issues with administrative data using the FoodAPS, a unique...

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Determinants of immigrant homeownership : examining their changing role during the Great Recession and beyond

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The Great Recession had significant economic effects both in the U.S. and around the world. There is evidence that homeownership rates declined during this period, though some immigrants were less severely affected compared to natives. In this paper we investigate the role of several factors in...

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Take-up and targeting : experimental evidence from SNAP

Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - 2018

This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. We calibrate the key parameters using a randomized field experiment in which 30,000 elderly...

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COVID-19 and the future of US fertility: what can we learn from Google?

Wilde, Joshua; Chen, Wei; Lohmann, Sophie - 2020

We use data from Google Trends to predict the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future births in the United States …. First, we show that periods of above-normal search volume for Google keywords relating to conception and pregnancy in US …-validation criteria. Third, we use data on Google searches during the COVID-19 pandemic to predict changes in aggregate fertility rates in …

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Correcting for misreporting of government benefits

Mittag, Nikolas - 2016

Recent validation studies show that survey misreporting is pervasive and biases common analyses. Addressing this problem is further complicated, because validation data are usually convenience samples and access is restricted, making them more suitable to document than to solve the problem. I...

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Errors in survey reporting and imputation and their effects on estimates of food stamp program participation

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Goerge, Robert - 2018

Accurately measuring government benefit receipt in household surveys is necessary when studying disadvantaged populations and the programs that serve them. The Food Stamp Program is especially important given its size and recent growth. To validate survey reports, we use administrative data on...

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