Expenditure Response to Increases in In‐Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
| Autor: | Charlotte Tuttle, Timothy K.M. Beatty |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Cash income digestive oral and skin physiology Economics In kind Consumer/Household Economics Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety Food Security and Poverty Food stamps Demographic economics Observational study Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Marginal propensity to consume Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Agricultural economics |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 97:390-404 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8276 0002-9092 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ajae/aau097 |
| Popis: | Recent studies on food stamp participant households’ marginal propensity to spend out of food stamps versus income have had contradictory results: experimental studies have found household behavior aligns with standard economic theory where households’ marginal propensity to spend on food out of food stamps is equivalent to cash income; observational studies nd that households have a larger marginal propensity to spend out of food stamps than cash income. In this study, we re{examine this question by estimating how an unprecedentedly large increase in food stamp benets due to the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aects food{at{home expenditure. We nd that the policy change caused households to increase food{at{home expenditure as well as increase households’ share of total expenditure allocated toward food{at{home expenditure. We compare these results to a time period without a meaningful food stamp policy change and nd our results are unique to the ARRA implementation time period. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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