Who Benefits Most from SNAP? A Study of Food Security and Food Spending / Partha Deb, Christian A. Gregory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deb, Partha.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gregory, Christian A.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22977.

NBER working paper series no. w22977

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

We study the effects of SNAP participation on food insecurity and food spending using finite mixture models that allow for a priori unspecified heterogeneous effects. We identify a low food security subgroup comprising a third of the population for whom SNAP participation increases the probability of high food security by 20-30 percentage points. There is no affect of SNAP on the remaining two-thirds of the population. SNAP increases food spending in the previous week by $50-$65 for a low modal spending subgroup comprising two-thirds of the population, with no effect for the remaining third of the population.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2016.