Evaluating A USDA Program That Gives SNAP Participants Financial Incentives To Buy Fresh Produce In Supermarkets
| Autor: | Brian E. Elbel, Oran Hesterman, Alex Parret, Matthew Harding, Pasquale E. Rummo, Danton Noriega |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Low income
Michigan Databases Factual Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Agricultural economics Food Supply 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Financial incentives Vegetables Humans 030212 general & internal medicine United States Department of Agriculture Health policy Motivation 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Commerce Subsidy United States Incentive Fruits and vegetables Feasibility Studies Food Assistance Business 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Health Affairs. 38:1816-1823 |
| ISSN: | 1544-5208 0278-2715 |
| DOI: | 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00431 |
| Popis: | Pricing incentives may reduce disparities in obesity among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants by increasing fruit and vegetable purchases. However, few studies have evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of those incentives in supermarkets, as opposed to farmers markets. In 2015 and 2016, as part of a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) pilot program, a dollar-matching program in Michigan provided SNAP participants with a subsidy on fresh produce purchases. Using data on millions of individual transactions from thirty-two stores, we found that SNAP participants' spending on fresh produce was significantly higher at stores that implemented the subsidy than at control stores during both intervention periods (7.4 percent and 2.2 percent higher in 2015 and 2016, respectively). Our results highlight the effectiveness and feasibility of dollar-matching programs for fruit and vegetable purchases by SNAP participants who shop at supermarkets, and they support the USDA's expansion of existing programs to that setting in additional states. |
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