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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12808
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dietary quality; FoodAPS; healthy eating index; instrumental variables unconditional quantile regression; SNAP
According to recent studies, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the United States has had some impact on the dietary quality of low-income individuals. On average, SNAP does not significantly affect the dietary quality of households. However, for households with initially lower to intermediate dietary quality, participation in SNAP may lead to a decrease in their dietary quality.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation's largest domestic food and nutrition assistance program for low-income Americans. Recent studies that examined the effect of SNAP on dietary quality focus on the average effects. Using the USDA's 2012 National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and an unconditional quantile estimator, we examine the distributional impacts of SNAP on dietary quality as measured by Healthy Eating Index-2010 (HEI-2010). To identify the differential impacts of SNAP across the distribution of dietary quality, we exploit exogenous variation in state's maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefits and state outreach spending per capita as instrumental variables. We find that SNAP has no significant impact on households' dietary quality on average. However, for households with initially low-to-intermediate dietary quality, SNAP participation reduces their HEI scores by over 17% or more than 7 points out of a total score of 100. The negative impacts of SNAP on these HEI quantiles are mainly driven by an increased acquisition of empty calories.
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