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Nowcasting and Forecasting the Monthly Food Stamps Data in the US Using Online Search Data

Fantazzini, Dean - 2014

We propose the use of Google online search data for nowcasting and forecasting the number of food stamps recipients. We … perform a large out-of-sample forecasting exercise with almost 3000 competing models with forecast horizons up to 2 years … ahead, and we show that models including Google search data statistically outperform the competing models at all considered …

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Wiseman, Michael - 2017 - Draft

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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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Indian Food and Welfare Schemes : Scope for Digitization towards Cash Transfers

Saini, Shweta - 2017

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An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants

East, Chloe - 2018

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Impact of USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Rural and Urban Economies in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

Vogel, Stephen J.; Miller, Cristina; Ralston, Katherine L. - 2021

This report traces the impacts of USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit outlays on the rural and urban economies during the post-recession years 2009–14. The macroeconomic stimulus effects of the expenditures of SNAP benefit outlays generated larger economic impacts...

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The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food Security : Evidence from Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh

Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2008

We study whether a sudden increase of the price of rice supplied by the Indian Public Distribution System in Andhra Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on child nutrition. A few months after the price increase, a health survey started to record weight for a large sample of...

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Food insecurity and food assistance programmes across OECD countries : Overcoming evidence gaps

Giner, Céline - 2022

Food systems are expected to ensure food security and nutrition for a growing population. While food insecurity is more acute in developing countries, OECD countries are also affected. The current high-level of food prices could push more people into poverty and hunger. Governments have a role...

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In-kind transfers as insurance

Gadenne, Lucie; Norris, Samuel; Singhal, Monica; … - 2022

In-kind transfers can provide insurance beneﬁts when prices of consumption goods vary, as is common in developing countries. We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers are welfare improving to beneﬁciaries relative to cash if the covariance between the marginal utility of income...

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Indian food and welfare schemes : scope for digitization towards cash transfers

Saini, Shweta; Sharma, Sameedh; Gulati, Ashok; Hussain, … - 2017

The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performance of the existing Public Distribution System (PDS), and current state of banking infrastructure,...

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