The health and nutrition effects of SNAP

M Bitler, J Bartfeld, C Gundersen… - SNAP matters: How …, 2015 - degruyter.com
The goal of this chapter is to assess the state of knowledge about whether the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program improves health and nutrition outcomes. I begin by noting …

Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program

MJ Bailey, H Hoynes, M Rossin-Slater… - The Review of …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven
increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 …

How are SNAP benefits spent? Evidence from a retail panel

J Hastings, JM Shapiro - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We use a novel retail panel with detailed transaction records to study the effect of the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household spending. We use …

Associations between governmental policies to improve the nutritional quality of supermarket purchases and individual, retailer, and community health outcomes: an …

AJ Moran, Y Gu, S Clynes, A Goheer… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Supermarkets are natural and important settings for implementing environmental
interventions to improve healthy eating, and governmental policies could help improve the …

Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program

We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001
to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's …

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and material hardships among low-income households with children

HL Shaefer, IA Gutierrez - Social Service Review, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
This study estimates the effects of participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) on the risk of food as well as nonfood material hardships experienced by …

The effect of food stamps on children's health: Evidence from immigrants' changing eligibility

CN East - Journal of Human Resources, 2020 - jhr.uwpress.org
The Food Stamp program is currently one of the largest safety net programs in the United
States and is especially important for families with children. The existing evidence on the …

Good for the environment, good for business: Foreign acquisitions and energy intensity

A Brucal, B Javorcik, I Love - Journal of International Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
The link between foreign ownership and environmental performance remains a
controversial issue. This paper contributes to our understanding of this subject by analyzing …

Opening the “black box” of food safety policy implementation: The efficiency-enhancing role of a private meso-institution

GM de Oliveira, BV Miranda, MSM Saes, G Martino - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
There is continuing interest in how rules created at the “institutional environment” level
influence the performance of food safety policies. The influence of institutional rules on the …

[PDF][PDF] Modernizing SNAP benefits

JP Ziliak - The Hamilton Project Policy Proposal, 2016 - hamiltonproject.org
Abstract The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the
Food Stamp Program, is the largest food assistance program in the United States. The goal …