Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages 1082-1098Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aar026
Keywords
food insecure; food insufficient; food stamps; instrumental variables; selection bias; SNAP; I38; Q18
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development [R01HD057189]
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Nearly 15% of all U.S. households and 40% of near-poor households were food insecure in 2009. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the cornerstone of federal food assistance programs and serves as the first line of defense against food-related hardship. This paper measures the effectiveness of SNAP in reducing food insecurity using an instrumental variables approach to control for selection. Our results suggest that receipt of SNAP benefits reduces the likelihood of being food insecure by roughly 30% and reduces the likelihood of being very food insecure by 20%.
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